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Cambridge officials leading the City's fight against the proposed Inner Belt highway yesterday attacked a new transportation plan for Eastern Massachusetts that recommends building the Belt as part of a $576.9 million "short range" transit program...
Gray said he was fearful that the state Department of Public Works--which first proposed the Belt in 1948 and had a large hand in the highway section of the EMRPP transportation plan--might turn around and use the EMRPP study to support its fight for the Belt. "It would be another turn of the lock," Gray said...
Wild and Unrestrained. That was in December. Now Woroner is back with the Ail-Time Middleweight Tournament and Championship Fight. But this time, he has a network of 650 stations in the U.S. and abroad, and advertising sales of about $4.5 million. His show might well be called the All-Time Most Successful Independently Produced Radio Series...
With the addition of taped sound effects and a breathless, leather-swinging commentary by Sportscaster Guy Le-Bow, Woroner packaged the simulated matches into a 16-week radio series and billed it as the All-Time Heavyweight Tournament and Championship Fight. Few radio men gave the series much of a chance. They obviously failed to consider all the fans who jaw endlessly about sports in taverns and barbershops. Newspapers ran fanciful accounts of the fights; Las Vegas posted weekly odds. For the final championship fight between Rocky Marciano and Jack Dempsey, an audience of 16.5 million listened over 380 stations...
PERHAPS it started when you were ten years old and you lost a fight with the kid up the block for the first time. You ran home bleeding and crying to your mother and she patched your wounds and told you, "You can't fight with boys, dear. They're stronger than you are." And she was right. Boys not only had strength you could never match, they had all the paraphernalia of strength: sweat socks, Erector sets, laundry bags full of shoulder pads, aircraft carrier models, framed photos of The Varsity, dirty books, baseball cards and pup tents, while...