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WHEN I FIRST SAW VOLCANO SUNS three years ago, they were a nascent three-piece outfit featuring drummer Peter Prescott, formerly of Mission of Burma. At the time, they were playing with the wretched Ben Vaughan Combo, opening up for a Violent Femmes show. The trio's songs were rough, half-improvised ditties with common foods like popcorn and margarine being the typical subject matter. It's no wonder I did not think much of them...
Concrete, plaster, wood and water flooded a room in 8 Prescott St. earlier this week in the latest of a series of structural problems that have plagued the freshman dormitory this year...
...also orchestrated the $100,000 move ofMorton Prince House from its old location nearDivinity Ave. to Prescott St., where it stands asthe Freshman Dean's Office. To move the building,it was necessary to cut it into three pieces andremove the traffic lights and parking meters onQuincy...
...recall that in his youth, success was always paramount with George. In 1943, at 18, he became the youngest pilot in the Navy. He won the Distinguished Flying Cross for bravery under fire. Longtime friends believe that Bush, one of four sons, was determined to please his imposing father, Prescott Bush, a Wall Street banker who later became a U.S. Senator from Connecticut. However it happened, the son has ever since been in physical overdrive...
Every year about 20,000 people are killed on American roads by drunken drivers. Now several firms are promoting a product that could save some of those lives: disposable alcohol detectors designed for use by consumers. One device, called BreathScan and manufactured by Denver-based Prescott Technologies, is a 3-in. tube filled with yellow crystals. A motorist blows into the tube and if the crystals turn blue-green, knows that he is too intoxicated to drive safely. Such gadgets were invented years ago but have been sold almost exclusively to police departments and other institutions. Within a month, though...