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...history of the Boston toll road-freeway controversy has been one of sudden compromise, of veiled threats, and of panic in the face of a clock that is running down. In the first stage it centered around newly-elected governor John A. Volpe, around William F. Callahan, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and around the $200 million Prudential Center at Huntington Avenue and Boylston Street. In the second the principal actor was Mayor Donald L. Gibbs of Newton...
When Volpe took office, the Legislature had long before authorized blueprints for a toll road, financed by a Turnpike Authority bond issue, connecting Rte. 128 and downtown Boston via the tracks of the Boston and Albany Railroad. The Authority, i.e., Callahan (who controls the bond issue), had already procured an option on the right of way. Although this plan and contracts connected with it had been gathering dust for close to five years, $20 million worth of work had gone forward on the Prudential Center, under which the expressway was expected to pass...
What concerns him much more is the relationship of diet to the nation's No. 1 killer: coronary artery disease, which accounts for more than half of all heart fatalities and kills 500,000 Americans a year-twice the toll from all varieties of cancer, five times the deaths from automobile accidents...
...well with many Saudis. Budget cuts brought to a near standstill King Saud's busy building of palaces and impressive government offices in Riyadh, and grumbling artisans and tradesmen quit town by the thousands. And Feisal's stern watchdog role took a heavy personal toll. Troubled for years by a stomach ailment, he went on a liquid diet and an 18-hour workday. Snapped one Saudi who recently visited Feisal: "His dingy office was piled right to the ceiling with files, files, files. He insisted on signing everything personally, even visas. Was this the way for a Bedouin...
...Everything-Everything." The midair collision cost the lives of 139 men, women and children-the highest toll in commercial aviation history...