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...community has launched a hundred organizations and a thousand candidacies for higher office. In past years, the so-called Independent City Councilors could be counted on, if for nothing else, their opposition to Harvard (or MIT). Councilor Alfred Vellucci is famous to generations of freshmen for his proposals to pave Harvard Yard for a parking lot, to have the University moved to Peterborough, N.H. and to have the street in front of the Lampoon renamed Yale Square...
That physical impairment helped pave Miller's road to power. In 1969, while working at the wet mine, he helped organize strikes in West Virginia to force passage of a state law declaring black-lung disease a work-incurred ailment worthy of compensation pay. His unauthorized activities enraged U.M.W. panjandrums, and Miller became a leader of the insurgents who ultimately brought down Tony Boyle, U.M.W. president for a decade...
...City of Cambridge lured the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) into Kendall Square to develop a $60 million electronic research center that was to help pave America's way to the moon and provide a gleeful MIT with a wealth of related research jobs. To make way for NASA the city relocated some businesses and tore down others, resulting in the loss to Cambridge of nearly 3000 jobs...
...pave the alley with the "pebble stones" popular in the 1790s and to repair some plumbing, however, will cost $250,000. Applications for that sum were sent to Washington, which has a kitty for historical preservation...
Even so there was some grumbling at home about the cost. When someone quipped that it would be cheaper to pave the alley with money, the Philadelphia Daily News decided to enlist the services of Director Joel Bloom of the city's Franklin Institute to see what $250,000 would literally cover. Ignoring dollar bills ("inferior wearing quality," noted the News), Bloom figured that the street could be paved with dimes for $58,368 and quarters for $82,080. In fact, Bloom added, the city could cover the alley with separate layers of dimes and quarters and still have...