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...Lynn, Mass., buildings and dreams go up in smoke...
Brian Magrane, 38, chairman of the Economic Development Industrial Corporation in Lynn, Mass. (pop. 78,741), was feeling proud and elated as he drove home in the wee hours. His high school class reunion earlier that night had been a rousing success, and in three days a contract was to be signed for the final phase of his proudest achievement: a fiveyear, $194 million renewal of Lynn's downtown. Vast, empty Victorian brick factories, relics of the Lynn's long reign as "Shoe Capital" of the nation, were being recycled to serve a reawakening city as offices, stores...
...buildings leveled, nine more badly damaged; 37 businesses providing 1,500 jobs burned out; $50 million in real estate ruined, plus $20 million or more in business and personal property; 400 people left homeless. No one was killed or even seriously injured. But the psychological blow was heavy. Lynn had lost jobs in industries ranging from shoemaking to jet-engine manufacture, and more than 20% of its population, since World War II. The renewal plan had offered the first plausible hope of reversing that all-too-common decline. Said Lynn Mayor Antonio Marino: "It was like watching my heart being...
Last week, Saugus officers combed the area around Route 107, or Lynn Marsh Road, in a 27-man foot patrol, aided by tracking dogs, a helicopter, and several skin divers in the marsh itself...
...straightens the spine, Swedish kneading relaxes the muscles, and Oriental rubbing drains the cat's sinus passages. Mocha stretches in ecstasy. Cats need such relaxation. Even subtle shifts in their owners' life-styles can send kitties into tailspins. When Philadelphia Writer Marc Kaufman, 32, and his wife Lynn Litterine, 35, brought home their new baby, their cats, Yukon and Ted, became perverse-fighting, spraying and hissing. The couple sought out pert, brunet Ginger Hamilton, 45, a cat shrink, one of only a dozen or so such practitioners in the country. Her pet-psychology office in Silver Spring...