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...state guesthouse in a long cortege of limousines through streets dark and deserted except for the squads of soldiers guarding intersections. Early next morning, the Ilyushin flew over the mist-shrouded mountains of northern Laos to a grassy landing strip on the Plaine des Jarres, an 800 sq. mi. plateau, so named because it is dotted by ancient, granite burial jars weighing up to 100 tons...
...city itself has a further rationalization for inertia. Cambridge planners say with a certain amount of truth that they cannot plan re-development in the area to the east of Central Sq. until they know exactly where the proposed Inner Belt highway will go. This is a reasonable enough moratorium, since it involves state as well as local lethargy. However, because of a system of priorities voted in the city council, almost no urban renewal can take place in the whole of Cambridge until the inner belt goes through. Thus, while people in the east of Cambridge neglect their homes...
...such supermagnet has yet been built. For one thing, it will surely prove to be extremely violent: its field of 100,000 gauss will exert a force of six tons per sq. in. at the end of the coil. Another difficulty is that the coil will have to be kept near absolute zero, presumably by bathing it in liquid helium, whose high volatility makes it a nightmare to handle...
There are some definite "plusses" to area promoter John Briston Sullivan's plan for an office building on stilts across from Littauer Center near Harvard Sq., the director of Cambridge City Planning told the Harvard Square Businessmen's Association...
...announced capacities was Charles William Eliot II '20, professor of City and Regional Planning. As a landscape architect, he stressed the importance of saving open land in metropolitan areas, while as a city planner he predicted that such a plan would make "one colossal mess out of the Harvard Sq. area...