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Three generations of North End Italians have hung out in Mazza's Pool Room. Friday nights after the Hub Lanes down on Hanover Street close there isn't any place else to go. Besides, it's only ten cents a rack (a line of candlepins will cost 35 cents) and Uncle, who took over Mazza's from a relative five months ago, sees to it that no one gets badly hustled...
...things I really like here is the Harvard Band." Considering the adventuresomeness of the program, that's quite a compliment. For once the Band managed to communicate a sense of enthusiasm throughout the program, not just when playing the old standards. As a concert Band, the HUB is definitely coming...
Chicago grew rich as the Midwest's hog butcher, and has fattened as "the convention capital of the U.S." As a centrally located air, rail, and highway hub, it is perhaps the most convenient of U.S. cities. It has fleshpots and fun spots. For expositions it has the Navy Pier, Soldier Field, the International Amphitheater, and Chicago Stadium. In 1960, Chicago outdid itself by building McCormick Place, an edifice alongside Lake Michigan that ran the size of six football fields, with 486,000 square feet of space on three levels. It soon became the site...
...passenger plane on trunk lines and lately on the nation's 13 feeder or local airlines as well. The jets are expensive to fill, and airlines, as a result, are flying farther between touchdowns and slashing service to smaller cities. "The simple fact of the matter," says HUB'S Bailey, "is that the big carriers can't afford to run a $5,000,000 airplane for a 50-mile trip...
Without Coffee. The commuter lines can. The economical Beech planes that HUB will use need only 3.1 passengers to break even. The flight is generally more expensive than a similar flight on a jet, and there are no hostesses, coffee, tea or milk. What the commuter craft does is provide transport for businessmen anxious to negotiate deals...