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SIDES One and Two were clearly conceived as a rock side and a ballad side, respectively. Three of the cuts on the first side are pedestrian rock songs that are nearly indistinguishable from each other. The standouts are "Shake Your Hips," a Slim Harpo tune that the Stones do in a version a little slower than, (but otherwise identical to) the original; and "Tumbling Dice," the single, which is nice enough but hardly up to the standard of most Stones 45s. Jagger's voice is mixed down so low on this whole side that the lyrics are completely unintelligible...
...Cambridge City Council sub-committee recommended Monday that Brattlewalk remain unchanged until final plans for traffic, parking, and pedestrian use of Harvard Square are approved in conjunction with the opening of the Kennedy Library...
...objections to the current pedestrian mall center on several points...
Wasserman's most ambitious Harvard Square development, currently underway, consists of changing a sizeable garage at the corner of Mt. Auburn and Boylston Streets into a shopping mall. The mall, tentatively to be called "The Garage," will house specialty and craft shops, and cover half a block. A pedestrian thoroughfare will connect Boylston St. to Duster St. Work on the Garage has been in progress since last winter, and the mall should open for occupancy sometime next year...
...stores and coffee shops. Parking will become harder--by how much, no one is sure. Driving through the Square will probably become a chore of awesome proportions. Tenants will have to bear higher land values, which will ultimately translate into higher rents, and live with an unfamiliar sky-line. Pedestrian traffic will probably swell by half or two thirds...