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...York Yankees yesterday at Chavez Ravine was everything a 1977 Dodgers' win was meant to be: brutally powerful and totally one-sided. Under manager Tommy LaSorda, the Dodgers are no longer the speed-and-fineesse team we came to know and love in the '60s. Now they prefer to hammer their way into our hearts...
Most officials in the City zoning office agree that down-zoning, like spot-zoning, is really not the best way to deal with Harvard. But after spending a summer hassling with Radcliffe in an effort to hammer out a building plan for the proposed athletic complex on Observatory Hill, many residents feel that the only way to take on the University is to enlist the city's help in negotiations...
Generations of G.I.s have learned to use the bowl-shaped M1 combat helmet as a hammer for tent stakes, a shaving basin and a stew pot -as well as, of course, a means of protection. But the old "wobble pot" is also literally a pain in the neck. It comes in only one size (with adjustable liner), feels like a ton (actual weight: 3 Ibs. 4 oz.) and a soldier has to hold it on when he runs. At last, relief is in sight. The U.S. Army Research and Development Command at Natick, Mass., is field-testing a new design...
Students living near the Lowell House bell tower may find it difficult to sleep past the early morning hours, as construction crews hammer new bricks and remove old ones from the bell tower. Cracks were discovered early this summer, but initial repairs determined that the tower is not falling apart, and the work should take no more than two weeks to finish, Frank Marciano, superintendent of Buildings and Grounds, said yesterday...
...during the last recession; mortgage money became so scarce that relatively few new houses were built. But the big and mercurial housing industry, which fell harder than almost any other business during the slump, is coming on strong in the current economic recovery. This year builders will hammer together 1.9 million dwellings, about three-quarters of them single-family homes and the rest apartments. That is still short of the 2 million-plus that the industry reached in three years of the early 1970s, but a spectacular rebound from the low of February 1975, when the annual rate...