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THERE ARE THOSE nations which, by the very nature of their regimes, seem to be grist for self-styled international code decipherers. Kremlinology, the effort to analyze the internal power structure of the Soviet Union by use of various symbols, such as who was standing next to whom in what photograph, who received a favorable review in this or that Soviet academic journal, or who accompanied Brezhnev on his Eastern European tour, is not by any means an exact science. But it is a legitimate science, in that the American media recognizes such speculation as worthwhile, and newspapers...
...paint peels off the inside walls and rickety wooden stairways lead to doors that go nowhere, curves around the apex of Harvard Square at Mass Ave and Boylston Street. It's three stories high, and the bottom story holds stores and restaurants--Elkins, Varsity Liquor, the Tasty, the Grist Mill, the Wursthaus, all in a blur. The top floors--this is a story about them--are white and austere from the outside, bits and pieces, actually, of three small tacked-toegether buildings. A big sign that says J. HENRY QUINN REAL ESTATE stretches across the space between the second...
...Quinn up there, a real estate man," he says. "And a photographer. Let's see, a beauty shop; a secreterial school, used to be, now it's a printing company. There was a tailor up there too--a fellow by the name of Raia. That was over the Grist Mill. I don't know what's there...
Whitlock concedes the "hard-to-defend" privileges of the Fly offer grist for a conspiracy theory mill, and briefly he evokes visions of monied Fly Club alumni pulling strings with Mass Hall buddies to kill plans for the land. But he then discounts such a theory: "I was too close to it," he says, to miss such machinations...
...What preceded La Crepe? The 24 Rest? The Grist Mill? Canaday Hall? "Satch" Sanders...