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...CITY OF CAMBRIDGE is just outside Harvard's gates, but most students spend four years here without bothering to learn about their neighbors. How is the City run and what are its problems? Why does City Councillor Al Vellucci want to pave over the Yard and turn it into a parking lot? Why don't the other Councillors think this is such a bizarre idea? Travis Dungan looks at Cambridge on page...
...Uncle Pete Pillington picking his banjo on his front porch, the Statler Brothers singing dauntlessly in the driving Tennessee rain. Country music fans will probably find the pop-crossover material impure, but if the appealing mood-and the lineup of top name performers-is sustained, this show could pave the way for a regular-season show celebrating country sounds...
...tower in many ways will be comparable to a small city. Its electrical system could serve all of Rockford, Ill. (pop. 147,000), and its air-conditioning complex could cool 6,000 houses. The structure contains enough concrete to pave over 78 football fields; it has 80 miles of elevator cables. S.O.M. designers have also learned from the bad experiences of other supersky-scraper builders. For example, to prevent elevators from automatically rising to floors where a fire has broken out (because the elevator buttons are designed to respond to heat-from passengers' fingertips), operators in the building...
...really believe in these goals. I also believe that channels are open now at UHS, and that change is possible. The first big changes have been the opening of the channels. The impetus for further change must come from the consumer population. A person in my role can only pave the way and help to make things possible. Initiative for change, and direction for the goals of change, must come from a responsible community, willing to participate, not only to make demands...
...dictatorial Lon Nol regime reorganized itself last week, reportedly at the behest of the United States. The reorganization is supposed to pave the way for negotiations with the liberation armies who have surrounded the capital of Phnom Penh and threatened the survival of the Cambodian dictatorship...