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...first Red Line service to North Cambridge and Somerville, the Davis and Porter Square stations represent the latest accomplishments in the MBTA's $574 million northwest extension started six years ago. Two more mass transit stops and additional Red Line improvements will add the finishing touches to the 3.2 mile new subway to be completed by next fall, according to James F. O'Leary, MBTA general manager...
Cambridge Mayor Leonard J. Russell may throw a wrench into Harvard's plans for developing the site of an old elementary school it recently purchased about one-half mile northwest of Radcliffe Yard...
...destroyed four spherical tanks, each holding at least 420,000 gal. of liquefied gas, but also sent enormous steel shards spearing into houses. Then came several more blasts as 48 smaller containers exploded. One 50-ft.-long propane cylinder soared through the air and crushed a house half a mile away. In all, more than 30 acres of working-class housing were destroyed, another 30 heavily damaged...
...body conditioning." Last week, to celebrate his 70th birthday in Long Beach, Calif., he put on what must be the definitive proof of the power of positive thinking. As a crowd of onlookers sang Row, Row, Row Your Boat, LaLanne, with his hands and feet bound, swam a mile through the city's harbor while towing 70 rowboats, each with at least one person inside. The feat took 2½ hours, but the triumphant human tug emerged from the water saying that he had fulfilled "the dream of a lifetime...
While Penn State won that game, the Nittany Lions make a good touchstone for the spectacular Flutie years. He threw on them for 520 yds. the next season, 380 the year after that and 447 a few weeks ago, getting on to a mile against one team alone. He has passed for 10,303 yds. in all and has run that up to 11,054, both major-college records. But the cold figures are not what has warmed New Englanders, who as a rule show no more passion than penchant for this primal sport of Texas and Ohio. Boston College...