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...also joined the mass of communities across the nation who are fighting the expansion of the McDonald's quickie-hamburger chain. The Douglass Street Tenants' Association, a local civic group, asked the State Landmarks Commission to declare the pre-Civil War Greek revival building McDonald's planned to raze an official landmark. The city council temporarily held up the necessary building permits...
...month. A North Philadelphia communications center called The Network tries to correct dangerous false rumors and get gang members into job-training programs. "The problem is solvable," says Mayor Frank Rizzo, "but it won't be done in my lifetime. I'd like to go out and raze every building out there and rebuild it all-schools, pools, parks, everything. But we don't have the money to do that...
President Bok declined yesterday to be swayed by a petition urging him to reconsider his decision to raze Hunt Hall to make way for a new freshman dormitory...
ARECENT PROPOSAL is to raze Bertram Hall in the Radcliffe Quad to make room for a twin of Mather House. This suggestion does incorporate the two desires for economy in construction and building only on property already owned. But unfortunately it ignores the aesthetic integrity of the Quad, which would be violated by such a cement monstrosity. No one bid the old field house at Radcliffe a tearful farewell when it came down for Currier House, but Currier was designed tastefully of brick and it was outside the Quad anyway. True, Bertram Hall is old and decrepit, and renovation...
...Curly (Joe Don Baker) gave him a fast $15,000 for the rights to raze the family shack and extend Curly's housing development. Ace blew it all mining in Nevada, "20 feet from the mother lode," but he is fed up anyway and wants to move on to Australia...