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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...money to buy up large portions of the city's residential areas. Rents skyrocketed, largely because there was demand for land, and little available housing. Harvard's familiar practice of land-banking--buying up land with apartment buildings and then razing them to build university facilities--is another sign of the scarcity of land in Cambridge. "There is little open space in Cambridge, so we are forced to buy housing as sites for potential buildings," Russel Hill, director of the Harvard Real Estate office, says...
...thing. "What are they waiting for, another murder?" asked Treglia's tearful widow Tilda, as she begged for someone to identify the killer. Finally, after four days of pleading, Detective Edward Zigo convinced five witnesses that allowing the murder to go unsolved might be seen by outsiders as a sign of the area's deterioration. Police charged a neighborhood handyman, Joseph D'Amico, 48, with the slaying. The alleged cause of the killing: a quarrel over botched repair work he had done on Treglia's sidewalk. > Park Slope was a well-to-do neighborhood of elegant three-story brownstone mansions...
...after Officer Mike Swindell finished the course, he spotted a Pontiac speeding by a stop sign. "I was always 20 miles an hour slower than he was, but he was taking those curves bad," Swindell recalls. "Finally, he missed a curve and I caught him." Officer Thomas Rudd has tried another Turner tactic: staying to the left of a fleeing car. Says he: "That's very intimidating, because the only thing the guy sees in his mirror is you about to pass him. This Dodge I was chasing could have outrun me, but he just gave...
...many ways a freshman is ripe for the picking. Any hawker worth his salt at registration can tell you that a freshman will sign up for or buy anything. For protection the freshman is provided with a surfeit of advisers and information sources. But how does he choose between proctor, senior adviser, academic adviser, Bureau of Study Counsel, Room 13, freshman dean, OCS-OCL, UHS shrinks, roommates and friends? The Confi Guide and Committee on Undergraduate Education guide tell him what to take and where to go. And yet he'll still have to learn by experience that...
...people who don't want any help, because they're addicted to these pills. It's a way for them to get these pills by coming to me." Valiums induce a state similar to drunkenness. "Every Indian who walks into that hospital drunk looks like a big dollar sign to these doctors," Grace says...