Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bans any building more than 90 ft. tall. Almost every other major city continues to build gigantic skyscrapers-New York its twin-tower, 110-story World Trade Center, Chicago its 80-story Standard Oil Building. Perhaps the most interesting of all, and among the most controversial, is the John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.'s nearly completed headquarters in Boston...
...whole area. The building's size-1.6 million sq. ft. of office space-seemed sure to destroy the charm and intimate scale of Copley Square, formed mainly by Charles McKim's stately, neo-Renaissance Public Library and H.H. Richardson's Romanesque Trinity Church. Boston officials urged Hancock to reconsider its plans, but the company threatened to move out of the city entirely if construction permits were not granted. One apparent reason for its insistence: a competitor's tower, the 52-story Prudential Building, made Hancock feel like engaging in what one of the city government...
...swamp filled with sand and gravel-digging into the unstable soil disrupted nearby areas. Streets and sidewalks rose and fell, sometimes as much as six feet, pinching and twisting telephone, electric and gas lines. Several water mains broke. As a result, the city and local utilities are suing Hancock for some...
...much power she would have as one member of a board that includes a Business School professor; the presidents of Eastern Gas and Fuel Associates, Northeast Utilities, North American Management Corp., and Old Colony Trust Co.; the chairman of the board of Commonwealth Oil Refining Co., and John Hancock Life Insurance Co.; and the senior vice-president of the First National Bank of Boston. She might have an effect, however, for General Gavin, as a McGovern supporter and the former "dove general" of Vietnam, could be forced into an embarrassing position if he refused to sanction...
Krakowisk Polish Dancers in Concert. Hancock Hall. 8, April...