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Samuel Ussia wants to spearhead a second Renaissance at the intersection of Hampshire and Portland streets. Ussia, president of the Dante Alighieri Society of Massachusetts, hopes the construction of a $1 million Italian Center of Culture in Cambridge will be "the tool by which Italian-Americans insert themselves into the mainstream of the historical process in America...
...Historic Places can write off their contributions in only five years. Declared Pritchard: "We're saying let us work with you and you do it." Though 130 theaters are listed on the National Register, as yet only two-the Strand in Shreveport, La., and the Paris in Portland, Ore.-have benefited from the tax incentive...
...save-the-palaces movement burgeoned too late to spare some of the great houses, notably Manhattan's Roxy, the Orpheums of Seattle and Portland, Ore., and the Paradise (lost) of Chicago. Many that still exist have become porn houses. Others were stripped and chopped into two, three or even four cinemas. Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall, the grande dame of U.S. movie palaces, only narrowly survived last year. Nor do all those that remain cater to the arts. Chicago's old Century Theater metamorphosed into a multilevel shopping center. The old Loew's Valencia...
Hollins, a veteran guard acquired from Portland in midseason, scored 24 points, including 15 in the first half as the 76ers built a 58-52 advantage...
...mere 37,000 years old ("A baby in geologic terms," said a seismologist), is one of the youngest in the range. It last erupted in 1857. Studying the evidence of explosions during the past 4,500 years, Geological Survey scientists predicted in 1978 that the symmetrical peak, visible from Portland 40 miles to the southwest, would blow before the year 2000. Two weeks ago the mountain was shaken by a sharp earthquake, followed by a series of tremors. Then came another jolt. Suddenly last Thursday, the silence on the snow-covered slopes was shattered by an explosion that was heard...