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First hint of disaster in the once tranquil Castellamare section came two months ago when the pavement started cracking up. Then the whole hillside started moving. Before it slowed down early this month, terra infirma was going west at the rate of 5 ft. an hour. The slide should have come as no surprise. Similar disasters have destroyed hundreds of homes in the region since 1956, prompting repeated official warnings against building on hills and in canyons. But even though insurance companies have refused to reimburse homeowners for damage due to earth slippage, builders and buyers still compete for high...
...SPORTS IN ACTION (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). The Boston Marathon, the U.S.'s oldest and foremost re-creation of the classic race, which attracts not only Olympic contenders but an assortment of aging pavement pounders...
...sycamores in today's CRIMSON reminds me of another road being quietly built along this side of the river between the Eliot and Arsenal bridges. The not unpleasant little stand of scrub red birch that used to be there, below the cemetery, will soon be replaced by pavement and another stream of the ubiquitous cars that seem to come out of the woodwork nowadays. Roger A. C. Williams...
...size of the crowds never exceeded 800. At least one Harvard student received minor injuries, after slipping on the pavement near Radcliffe and being trampled by some of the other demonstrators. Four youths--none of them Harvard students--were arrested by Cambridge police, and at least 20 bursar's cards were taken...
...stretcher while a medic held his hand over a gaping wound in the sailor's throat. A man rushed down the street cradling the corpse of a little boy in his arms. Many of the wounded who could walk left bloody footprints on the pavement...