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...million UDAG grant will fund the redesign of the Lechmere canal in East Cambridge, and a massive development project is designed to bring office and retail space to the Riverfront area. In the Alewife region, where three office complexes have been completed recently, additional office and industrial development is planned. Successful completion of the MBTA Redline extension is crucial for success in Alewife. In Cambridgeport, the major revitalization plans--under the supervision of MIT--have been stalled pending further negotiations with neighborhood residents. Plans for the other areas have already received local approval...
...lyric from the score of The Unsinkable Molly Brown-"Nobody wants me down like I wants me up"-had special meaning last week along the waterfront in Mobile, Ala. To make way for a $15 million port expansion, the city fathers decided to demolish a five-story riverfront warehouse. A TV crew was invited to watch the fun as engineers planted 150 Ibs. of dynamite around the foundation. Then a mighty roar and a cloud of dust-but only the first floor was blown out. The rest dropped onto the foundation intact. The next day workmen tried again. And again...
...employees who are laid off during the 30-day transfer period, though that will cost less than an outright closure. As part of the deal, Allbritton will get the News's presses, trucks and two printing plants, one in Brooklyn, the other on a prime stretch of riverfront in Queens. (He will lease the News's offices from the Tribune Co.) In exchange, Allbritton will become responsible for the operating losses of the paper and for pensions and severance for all employees who remain. He also faces the prospect of replacing $60 million worth of obsolete equipment...
Hopkins too was a master builder. The WPA created New York's La Guardia Airport, for example, and restored the St. Louis riverfront. But the most remarkable aspect of the WPA was its willingness to put people to work at their own trades (average wage: $50 to $60 a month) and to try anything. The WPA excavated Indian burial grounds in New Mexico, translated and indexed French and Spanish records in New Orleans, operated the bankrupt city of Key West, Fla. Unemployed writers like Conrad Aiken and John Cheever were put to work creating the American Guide series. Artists...
...last week's subzero winds at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, San Diego Quarterback Dan Fouts looked like a man trying to throw a nerf ball in mid-hurricane. The passes of the winning quarterback, Cincinnati's Kenny Anderson, were somehow strong and true. Said Bengal Linebacker Reggie Williams: "He has the mental toughness to be able to control the ball under those conditions. Fouts was not able to do that." Anderson put it differently, in his normal self-deflating prose: "I threw a lot of flutter balls and some end-over-enders. We were going to throw...