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...almost tripled. Construction and improvements involved huge expenditures, however, so the Massachusetts legislature terminated the Port of Boston as a government agency and in 1956 created the combined Massachusetts Port Authority. The Authority, which presently operates and controls Logan International Airport, Hanscom Field, Port of Boston properties, and the Mystic River Bridge (whose revenues are bigger than those of the port properties), is a curious mixture of business and government designed for the purpose of making the port a commercial concern, rather than a publicly subsidized...
There is no doubt that combined revenues from the Mystic Bridge and Logan have enabled the entire operation to function without a drain on the taxpayer. But it is also true that the combined Authority has produced a very discouraging record for the port itself. The rate of gain in short tonnage has not increased appreciably since the Authority assumed control in 1959, and an even more depressing note is revealed in the number of ships visiting the port, which decreased by 361 ships from '59 to '64. The fact is simply that the MPA has not increased or even...
...denied by the MPA, the concept of airport priority would seem to be borne out by facts. In the fiscal year 1965, for example, capital expenditures for port properties amounted to $648,000 as opposed to $5,162,000 for airport properties. Nearly as much was spent on the Mystic River Bridge as on the port. Logan, of course, is an expanding enterprise with heartwarming figures of growth--11.9 per cent increase in passengers and 30 per cent increase in air cargo for the last fiscal year. New Boston men are counting on an even bigger growth when...
SONGS OF SCANDINAVIA (London). Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish farmer's daughter, puts aside the superhuman passions of Wagner's Valhalla to sing most expressively some quiet love songs and mystic reveries about the fir forests, mists and dripping rocks of Scandinavia. Seven songs are by Sibelius, three by Grieg, and four by the little-known Swedish songwriter and symphonist, Ture Rangstr...
...Mystic Light. Mephistopheles, originally a series of lectures delivered to the Eranos circle of scholars and artists influenced by Psychologist C. G. Jung, is typical of Eliade's work: sweeping in scope, it minutely traces the origin and development of several spiritual concepts through a variety of cultures. One example is the widespread experience of the "mystic light," such as that of a sober-minded, 19th century New York City businessman who was ecstatically converted to Christ after a dream in which he was suffused with light. Eliade shows how many otherwise disparate faiths offer similar experiences...