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Community groups are claiming that construction in the area--known as Parcel 1B--will make traffic and air pollution levels in Harvard Sqare unbearable, if not unsafe. The project, originally suggested in May 1977, is still tied up in a series of state and local hearings and reports aimed at assessing its impact on the Square...
...those who knew those vast wise beasts of former times, they are endearing, almost toys for children. The children are heartbreaking now. In those times, the children of the Giants, the Natives' children, were each one born after such deliberation, such thought, each one chosen and from parents known to be the best. . . each with such a long life, time to grow, time to play, time to think, time to ripen their inner selves and grow fully into themselves. Now these delightful infants are born haphazardly, of any mating, any parents, treated well or ill as chance dictates, dying...
...life of wandering that included stays in Mexico, Europe, North Africa and Brazil, her home for 18 years. Precise observations of her adopted lands, reflected in a personal but distanced eye, figured large in her lean, immaculately wrought poetry. Though revered by fellow writers, Bishop was not widely known: her Complete Poems, which won a National Book Award in 1970, comprises a single, 200-page volume...
DIED. George Ryall, 92, racing columnist known for more than five decades as Audax Minor to readers of The New Yorker; in Columbia, Md. A jaunty, tweedy Canadian, Ryall joined The New Yorker in 1926, the magazine's second year of publication. In addition to his spirited race track reports, Ryall expounded on motor cars, polo and men's fashions. He turned in his last column in December...
...citizen on Social Security records; of heart and kidney failure; in Bartow, Fla. Smith claimed that he was born in Liberia, was lured onto a slave ship in 1854 and sold to a Texas rancher named Charlie Smith. Freed under the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Smith said he became known as "Trigger," a gun-slinging acquaintance of Billy the Kid and Jesse James. The spry, loquacious centenarian recounted tales that jibed with historical documents. One secret of his longevity: "I never drink green [plain] milk...