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...Mart is going up in Creston, 20 miles away, and Greenfield's merchants fear the worst. Wall Street traders will hail America's richest man, Sam Walton, and his relentless retailing march across the country. But Walton's new store, dropped in a field of asphalt (one of 1,400 in his discount empire) will suck a bit more of the commercial life out of Greenfield and similar towns in the same radius. Another comfortable old building with arched windows and high ceilings may have to be padlocked. Not so long ago they were all open, and the square filled...
Writing the story of the land and people was enough. He set up his huge Graflex in the middle of Depot Street one evening to photograph the grain elevator gloriously in flames. He parked his Ford in a cut made by a snowplow after one of the blizzards of 1936. The picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front...
...nothing has been so devastating as crack. By one count there are 365,000 American babies who were exposed to drugs in the womb, two-thirds of them the victims of crack. Unlike earlier street drugs, crack has lured at least as many women as men, with corrosive effects on family life. "I used to have heroin mothers in court who could hold a family together," says Penny Ferrer, director of New York City's office of adoption services. "But crack mothers cannot." And even as new cases cascade into the child-welfare system, the number of foster parents...
Simultaneously across the street, about 45 pro-Mitzna demonstrators from the Harvard Israel Public Affairs Committee staged a counter-demonstration on the Mass. Ave. traffic island. The committee, part of the Harvard Hillel but politically independent, recruited supporters from Harvard, Tufts and other area universities...
This weekend the Immediate Gratification Players, one of the College's two stand-up, improvisation groups, opens the Loeb Experimental Theater with a comedy show. If you're ready for some crudeness, rudeness, silliness or just a good laugh, head for the theater on Brattle Street this weekend...