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...sometimes brilliant administration of John Collins-the city was dramatically saved from nearly three-quarters of a century of inelegant decay by a variety of bold, even spectacular renewal projects. Business confidence, lost by a succession of amiable but frequently corrupt mayors, was restored, private investment increased, and "the Hub," as its citizens still sometimes like to call it, once more was the center of something...
...when students by the thousands occupied France's 23 universities, forcing classes to halt. Youthful orators railed against the established order at interminable meetings, but failed to agree on what should replace it. At the Sorbonne, the 700-year-old heart of the University of Paris and the hub of the previous week's violence, bearded youths and miniskirted coeds sat in the courtyard singing occasional ribald songs against the Gaullist government. Now and then a jazz band struck up a tune or a pianist played an instrument dragged from an auditorium. With no police around, students even...
...their voices, rejoicing and clapping their hands." Despite such salutary lessons, however, Mao has been unable to stifle his opposition. The Cultural Revolution Bulletin reported, in fact, that he narrowly escaped being captured by rebellious troops last July when he went to Wuhan, China's transportation hub and fifth-largest city, to bring a revolting commander to heel. Nor is Mao's dream of a China holding hands in a single, beatific chanting chain any nearer. The many months of character assassination, chaos, instigated lawlessness and near civil war have taken a terrible toll on nearly every human...
...Chicago, the 38-year-old Merchandise Mart, the world's largest commercial building, occupies air rights over the former site of the Chicago and North Western terminal. As a national rail hub, Chicago now figures to get a major face lifting because of newer airspace projects. The biggest beneficiary is likely to be the Illinois Central Railroad, which owns air rights above its tracks and right-of-way along Lake Michigan worth at least $185 million. Two of the most imposing structures on the Chicago skyline, the 41-story Prudential Building and the 40-story Outer Drive East apartment...
More important, when Ed School workers took the urban plunge, most entered the ghetto as research tourists, handling out questionnaires, looking at school sights, then dissolving into the city's green hub. "People are always asking," says Edna Pezzolesi, head of the Hawthorne House, a Roxbury educational center, "'I wonder how many books Harvard's going to write about this...