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...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...
Temple, Texas, is another fast-growing community. Sixty plants have opened in the area, in part because the city (pop. 41,500) lies at the hub of a wheel with spokes extending to Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Some of the residents there feel as if they are part of a migration within a migration. "My wife would slit her throat if we had to move back to Houston," says Gene Bishoff, manager of the 700,000-sq.-ft. Western Auto Supply distribution center. At first she did not want to leave Houston, where they had lived...
...DISTANCE between Brooklyn and Manhattan has always been made greater than the trip across the bridge. While Brooklyn is the image of Coney Island, of chicken soup, of stickball in the streets, Manhattan is incarnated as the hub, the paradise that children dream of, the place where stars are made. It alone is seen as the true city, desired by all those ambitious enough to imagine themselves there...
...clouds are like marble. The cathedral sits inside the rainbow's curve as though in a proscenium arch. Then one sees how every element (building, rainbow, sky, the tree on the left and the cart) is linked by one startling device: the tree, turning on the hub of the cartwheel like an immense brush, seems to have drawn the arc of t rainbow across the sky, unveiling the cathedral as it goes. Every surface - the mudguards of the cart no less than the slowly sliding water - sparkles with a whitish impasto, virginal and dense...