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...every dirty trick you can think of," said Portland, Ore., Police Lieutenant James E. Harvey to some 80 housewives, career girls and students. "Scratch his eyes out. Bring the heel of your hand up under his nose and break it. Smash him in the larynx and he'll have difficulty breathing. Tromp on his instep, that's always very good. And use your knee as hard as you can in the groin. You'll drop him to the ground -and he'll be a very sick fellow...
More important than that--if the City Council is really serious about opposing the Brookline-Elm St. route--is public endorsement of another alternative. Except for a route along Memorial Drive (which is not likely to be accepted), all paths through the City create substantial destruction. The Portland-Albany route, however, seems to do less long-range harm than the other possibilities. The Council must take a stand. If it doesn't the federal officials will almost certainly approve the state's selection of Brookline...
...created by the variety of different routes. Basically, there were only two alternatives to Brookline-Elm St.--one went straight through heavy industrial country and the other right along the fringe of M.I.T.'s campus. M.I.T. condemned the second route--the railroad route--and included the other alternative (the Portland-Albany St. route) in its attack by innuendo. Large businesses, including the Polaroid Co., protected their own interests by attacking the Portland-Albany St. route. The City Council was caught in a cross fire of different interests: residents, business, and M.I.T., all pleading that they be saved from the Belt...
JUST LIKE US! (Columbia) might well be called Just Like Them!, because Paul Revere and the Raiders put one in mind of so many other rock-'n'-roll groups, along with a dash of Dylan and a roll of Stones. But Paul, who comes from Portland, Ore., plays a rocking, rollicking organ, and the colonially clad quintet (seen on Where the Action Is) may make whole regiments of fans waver from their British alignments...
They added that the extra $10 million that the Portland-Albany route would cost was worth spending to save the 1500 the Brookline-Elm route forces...