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...first glance the 141-page document seems a bit overwhelming for a draft. It includes tables, maps and graphs of nearly every aspect of the University's physical environment. It outlines land boundaries, pedestrian and vehicular traffic patterns, all utility lines within the University, foliage, present zoning, building use, population densities and all potential projects that are now on the horizon for the Harvard campus. It does not specifically state each piece of property the University may attempt to purchase in coming years, but carefully lays out potential alternatives for land use in Harvard environs...
Also good are Kenneth Levy as Uncle Charley and Robert Dean as his son Bernard, both of whom have learned to accept the pedestrian nature of their lives. The director would have done well to tone down the simpish qualities of Bernard as a child--the play is clear enough on that point without the necessity of aping it. Carla Dragoni is very good as Willy's one-time lover. She is willing to take some chances in bringing the character alive, and the gamble pays...
...northwest extension of the Red Line will improve traffic, parking and access problems of the Harvard Square area, the Department of Planning and Development said in a report issued earlier this year. The impact of these changes should reduce the pedestrian-vehicular conflict in Harvard Square as well as noise and air pollution in Cambridge, the report said
...edging toward 50. He grew up in fashionable Merion, Pa., member of a distinguished, divided and furiously competitive clan. His mother, Historian Catherine Drinker Bowen (Yankee from Olympus), apparently never lost at any sport. Bowen dreamed of becoming a triple-threat back at Princeton but became a pedestrian first baseman at Amherst, then an editor in New York. Years passed. Sports stars grew younger. Bowen grew older. Came the day when he could no longer take comfort even from the presence on the sporting scene of elderly prizefighters like Archie Moore, or the ageless prowess of Stan Musial...
Despite his casual approach, Soglin has accomplished much in his first year in office. As alderman, Soglin supported a proposal to turn the city's State Street into a pedestrian mall. Last week construction began on the $15 million project, which had been vetoed by his predecessor, who feared it would turn the street into a hippie haven...