Word: hub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...waste disposal. Near it will rise the World Showcase, a permanent World's Fair. Still another theme park, Oriental Disneyland, now planned to open late in 1979, will border Tokyo Bay in Japan; the Disney people expect it to draw 10 million visitors annually at the tourist hub of Asia. Estimated cost: about $175 million-most to be borne by the Japanese...
...city possesses brilliant energies and a highly developed variety of nearly everything that urban society produces: the world's widest variety of and often its best -restaurants, bookstores, shops, theaters, ballets, jazz clubs, museums. The city is the nation's stage, its bank, its fashion model, the hub of its publishing, advertising and public relations. It is the central nervous system of TV networks, two wire services and two newsmagazines. Despite a serious hemorrhage, it remains the leading town for corporate headquarters. It is still the closest thing to an American Athens that an artist-or his audience...
...immediately: by general consensus, Locke-Ober's in Boston is the best restaurant in this section of the country, at $15 a person. See you and your parents over at Anthony's Pier Four tonight, and likewise for brunch next Sunday at the Prudential Building's Top of the Hub, where bloody Marys and eggs abound at a moderately high expense. For the same meal, local hacks say, the Newton Marriott has everyone beat, with its endless and relatively cheap supply of bagels...
...Boston Minutemen, the Hub's entry in the North American Soccer League, has gone the way of the New England Patriots. The team has given up its plans to play at Harvard Stadium and looked for "greener" pastures elsewhere...
...while before Taylor himself can get over some of the prejudices that a lifelong association with the Hub and Harvard has produced. He is not planning to terminate his ties around the area, and doesn't plan a move to scenic New Haven until next fall...