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...goal, which concluded the Crimson's second-half offensive spurt, came at 23:38, just 40 seconds after Smith had tallied to make the score 3-0, and just four minutes after Leighton Welch had scored his first goal of the season...
Exactly what went wrong aboard the Prinsendam is to be determined by a Dutch investigation. Preliminary accounts indicate that a fuel line may have broken, causing diesel oil to spurt on hot pipes and burst into flames. The fire knocked out the electrical system, shutting down the fire-fighting pumps. Crewmen sprayed carbon dioxide from handheld extinguishers, but could not keep the flames from spreading to other parts of the ship through an air shaft...
...midst of its growth spurt, Cambridge officially became a city. Over the protests of many upper-crust Cantabrigians, all the communities were officially joined. But, to borrow a phrase from Sutton, "the joining was strictly contractual, rather like a pre-arranged marriage of convenience in which the partners shared little love and continued to sleep in separate bedrooms." Actually, there was comparatively little for government to do--this was a boom era, and local government simply did not enact zoning regulations. It also refrained from planning, and even building codes were rudimentary. The look-the-other-way policy permitted fast...
...reaching 1000 by year's end, a level it last reached on Dec. 31, 1976, when it closed at 1004.65. What is needed to keep the bull market charging ahead? One thing would be investor confidence that there will not be a rerun of the spurt in interest rates that nipped the January boom. Another spur would be broad recognition that stocks remain cheap, especially in comparison with real estate, gold and other assets. Ten years ago, one ounce of gold, then worth $35, would have bought a little more than one share of U.S. Steel, which then...
...that the Northeast in general and Cambridge in particular is in for an unprecedented period of economic rejuvenation. All the things that made cities like Cambridge unpalatable to companies 20 years ago--like population density--make them seem ideal in an age of fuel consciousness. And the high technology spurt demands scientists and engineers, two commodities Cambridge boasts in spades. But the opportunity here has a dark side, closely related to the housing problems. Some fear full-scale shifts in employment patterns--in a few years, they say, only people up for a Nobel Prize will be able to find...