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Chained to Trees. All was calm until last summer, when Cantabrigians noticed some test borings being taken near the sycamores along Memorial Drive. Blood of the minutemen began to stir. The Cambridge Planning Board concluded that $100,000 worth of electronically controlled traffic signals would serve the same purpose as the $6,000,000 worth of bypasses. In addition, the extra traffic encouraged by the bypasses would require widening Memorial Drive at the expense of the land and trees on the river side of the road-a place especially dear to Cantabrigians for lazy basking...
Prison & Princeton. Staack, who is head of the department of religion at Pennsylvania's Muhlenberg College, is the same kind of teacher on screen as off. "I deliver my TV programs much as I do my lectures in class," he says. "I feel that if I can stir the interest of 30 college students, I can do it for a million people over television...
...uninitiated, the Beaties are four shaggy-haired youths from Liverpool, England, whose "pudding basin" haircuts and unique Liverpuglian sound are causing more of a stir in Britain than Mandy Rice-Davies. The group has touched off riots and mass hysteris throughout the Isles. Even the Queen Mother digs...
Vogue's raison d'etre provides the theme which permeates the book, and, I think, insures its success. As well as reporting "news" in its own inimitable way, Vogue exists more importantly to "cherish the sense of beauty, to feed the mind, to stir the imagination." In performing these functions, it excels. One must, of course, put up with those inevitable articles on the role of women, on travel, on famous people. The writing about the arts is sometimes noteworthy and often entertaining...
Britain's ailing textile industry boasts many prestigious names, among them the knights and right honorables that British companies are so fond of. But the name that currently causes the biggest stir is that of Joe Hyman. Organizing a small rayon-finishing company only six years ago, Manchester-born Joe Hyman steadily enlarged it through acquisitions, eventually merged with illustrious 180-year-old William Hollins & Co. Ltd., and himself emerged as Rollins' chairman and chief executive. Last week Hollins - renamed Viyella International Ltd. to capitalize on the fame of its lamb's-wool-and-cotton Viyella fabric...