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...became a movie distributor. Nowadays Rosalie is just as important: when Levine needs a gadget to promote one of his pictures-4,000 small rubber bombs to advertise Hercules, or 5,000 genie lamps to push the forthcoming The Wonders of Aladdin-Mrs. Levine gets busy in her own Newton Centre, Mass., workshop. With such help, plus his own shrewd eye for mass entertainment, Joe Levine has emerged as an energy-charged captain in an industry full of spent majors. The new Hollywood is apt to forget the old rules, and says Levine with a Barnum air, "we are reminding...
...down. In the first stage it centered around newly-elected governor John A. Volpe, around William F. Callahan, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and around the $200 million Prudential Center at Huntington Avenue and Boylston Street. In the second the principal actor was Mayor Donald L. Gibbs of Newton...
After the Callahan-Volpe pact, attention shifted to Mayor Gibbs of Newton, who had been an opponent of the toll road since its inception. Although reconciled to the need for a link between the Massachusetts Pike and Boston, Gibbs championed a freeway that would edge Waltham and Watertown, that would go down along the banks of the Charles River and thereby reduce large tax losses that might result from the demolition of industrial and residential property in Newton...
...initiated with the Interstate Commerce Commission. He maintained that there was no reason why a new route from Perkins to 128 could not be considered, a route that would not interfere with the Prudential and might reduce the waste of the original path of the road through Newton...
...Callahan forces, including Boston labor leaders, have thus vilified Gibbs as a man about to sabotage bread, business, and beauty in Boston. Senate President Powers has threatened to increase Newton's share of the MTA and MDC expense. But old Gibbs has an ace in the hole for the so-called "final" meeting time, Monday. If he waits long enough, he may panic the opposition into granting his concessions. If not, there hasn't been a good house bombing in Newton for years...