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Kelly's death marked the third fatality on the Red Line project since it began in 1979 Last August, a tunnel caved in near Porter Square, killing a construction worker. Approximately 18 months ago, a worker was killed when the acctyline torch he was using blew up near Davis Square in Somerville. Neither of these workers was employed by the Perini Corporation...
...Barry Porter, 14, of San Francisco, is a computer-age truant, so attached to the machine that he often skips school, rarely reads anything other than computer manuals and hangs out with his pals in a Market Street computer store, often plotting some new electronic scam. Barry (not his real name) currently boasts an illicit library of about 1,000 pirated (i.e., illegally copied) programs worth about $50,000 at retail prices, including such software gems as VisiCalc, the popular business management and planning program. Before security was tightened up, he regularly plugged his computer into such distant databanks...
...existing rules of amateurism could have been written by Cole Porter: Anything goes. On the occasion of his second consecutive victory in the New York Marathon last October, Alberto Salazar allowed as how, given a choice, he prefers his cash "under the table" rather than by way of one of the new trust-fund arrangements the International Amateur Athletic Federation has approved as a slender hedge against hypocrisy. Also on behalf of under-the-table money, Fred Lebow, the New York Marathon's candid proprietor, points out that it "is legal as far as the governments are concerned...
DIED. Abe Fortas, 71, prominent Washington lawyer, shrewd political adviser and former Justice of the Supreme Court; of a ruptured aorta; in Washington, D.C. Fortas was noted for his superlative legal craftsmanship, which also became a hallmark of the influential law firm he helped found, now known as Arnold & Porter. He argued the landmark Gideon vs. Wainwright case, in which the Supreme Court found in 1963 that poor defendants are entitled to free lawyers. President Lyndon Johnson, of whom he was a confidant, appointed him to the court in 1965. Four years later Fortas became the first Justice to resign...
About that unhappy porter: Kollek found him a new parking place...