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Maintenance workers broke ground yesterday in front of Stoughton Hall as a first step in the much-delayed re-installation of the Yard Pump, University officials said...
...pump, a gift from Radcliffe to the College on the occasion of Harvard's 350th anniversary, is an oak replica of the 1936 pump which last occupied the site...
...pump will be surrounded by a bluestone shale patio deemed by a Cambridge historical commission to be more in tune with the historical setting of the Yard...
Police threw up roadblocks and used megaphones to urge residents to stay indoors. A helicopter carrying marksmen with sniper rifles whirred overhead, and teams of police with pump shotguns flooded the streets. By 2:30 p.m. they had tracked Ryan to the John O'Gaunt elementary school, which he had attended as a child. Trained negotiators arrived to talk to him, but to no avail. Shortly after 8 p.m., a muffled shot rang out. Ryan had become his own last victim...
...Nonetheless, the consensus among Government, business and stock-market economists is a prediction of slowly growing production, rising corporate profits, a fairly small increase in inflation and relatively stable interest rates at least through most of 1988. One somewhat cynical reason often cited on Wall Street: the Government will pump enough money into the economy to keep production growing through a presidential-election year...