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...carpenter's strike halted all work on the project for 45 days in early summer, until contractors agreed to raise wages by $5.60 per hour. One worker helping build the Porter Square station of the new route was killed in a cave-in just weeks after construction resumed...
...Roger B. Porter, assistant professor of Public Policy. A special economics assistant in the Ford Administration, Porter now has a potpourri of economic advisory titles--in the White House, the Treasury Department, and the Office of Management and Budget. Porter was one of the people coordinating Reagan's "100 Days" program to launch the new administration's economic package...
Running against his brother was out of the question. Fortunately, there was a state representative race to be had in the old three-member district that stretched from Central Square to Porter Square. Sullivan joined with a Watson and a Good; together they took on the entrenched Republican machine of Winslow, Serrino and Lindstrom. A democrat (and Sullivan is very much a Democrat) had not won the seat in decades. But he had an issue--"we pulled absenteeism on rollcalls on Serrino, cause he had missed quite a few over the years"--and he had energy. "We worked damn hard...
There must be an attraction of opposites: Ernie Souchak (John Belushi), a pudgy, wily, chain-smoking columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, and Nell Porter (Blair Brown), a Boston Brahmin working alone in her Rocky Mountain aerie to save the American bald eagle. They must "meet cute": assigned to write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills...
This Roundabout Theater revival is scintillating. Top honors must go to Stephen Porter, whose direction is lucid, polished and springy. His performers shine. Inside Tarleton's paunchy "ridiculous old shopkeeper," Bosco releases an intrepid explorer of the intellect. Elliott's "Polish lady" is a feminine blowtorch, and Heald's Gunner is infallibly on key, whether arrogant, cringing or crying drunk. As ever, the superstar is G.B.S., that Irish imp of genius...