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...group of Harvard students is organizing a volunteer network to shovel snow for elderly Cambridge residents and to prepare for future snow emergencies. Margaret A. Stern '80, an organizer of the Dunster-based group, said yesterday...
Other Cambridge organizations have also asked people to help in the emergency. The Cambridge Fire Department has asked everyone to shovel out fire hydrants, the Red Cross is conducting an emergency blood drive, and the Cambridge Public Works Department asked people to clear snow from street drains to prevent flooding...
...last the long-awaitied winners in the Dr. Pressclips Meaningless Journalism Contest for December. First place goes to the Boston Herald for itspicture of a teenager grinning into the camera with a snow shovel in his hand. The cutline reads, "Twelve year old (Name withheld) shows no sign of birth defects as he shovels snow outside his parents home in Mattapan." Attaboy, kid. Second place to the New York Post for its "Sam Sleeps" cover, complete with a photograph of David Berkowitz catching a few z's in the Tombs. Honorable mentions toonumerous to name... --Joseph W. Dalton...
...trend threatens to make longshoremen as redundant as pick-and-shovel coal miners. It once took 100 longshoremen working around-the-clock for a week to load and unload cargoes on a conventional freighter; 40 to 50 men can do the same job on a container ship in less than a day. Although U.S. cargo traffic has soared by 276% since container ships first appeared, the number of longshoremen working the docks nationwide has declined from 150,000 to 90,000. In New York, I.L.A. membership has dropped from...
Although funds are available now, Stowell said it would be at least two or three months before "they put a shovel in the ground...