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...Mayor Jerry Hancock of Mitchell...
...money will go to states, the rest to communities. They can spend it as they like. Funds will be doled out on the basis of an exquisitely complicated formula based on population, tax collections, and per capita income. The formula will result in some quirky distribution. Mayor Hancock of Mitchell, Ind., which will receive about $17,000, thinks that his town of 4,000 residents is being so scandalously shortchanged that he is threatening not to accept the money. Big cities and generally poorer small communities and Southern states will get proportionally more than well-heeled towns and suburbs...
...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...
Hole Trouble. Even worse, say officials of Trinity Church, Hancock's hole caused the ground to shift so much that the church cracked in at least a dozen places. Hancock disputes the charge. Says Vice President Albert Prouty: "The ground is always settling. They cannot blame 95 years of aging on us." The Trinity congregation has endured other annoyances, however. Wind pressure popped several windows off the Hancock tower. A construction worker's water bucket plummeted through a stained-glass window. A doorframe fell into the chancel's roof. "First they overwhelmed us," said a Trinity parishioner...
...ironies of the controversy is that the Hancock Building is great architecture-not only handsome but also respectfully mirroring its neighbors and enlivening Copley Square. Indeed, its architect, Harry Cobb of I.M. Pei & Partners, studied the square's history and decided that it was never a secluded enclave of culture, as commonly thought, but rather the meeting place of city-shaping forces. These include the six-lane Massachusetts Turnpike behind the square and a cluster of tall buildings near its uptown and downtown flanks. The Hancock Building thus had to be a high-rise to fit into, and escape...