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...Space Administration (NASA) into Kendall Square to develop a $60 million electronic research center that was to help pave America's way to the moon and provide a gleeful MIT with a wealth of related research jobs. To make way for NASA the city relocated some businesses and tore down others, resulting in the loss to Cambridge of nearly 3000 jobs...
This year has been a bit of a disappointment for Curtin. In a pre-season scrimmage against Brown, he tore a tendon in his right hand and was sidelined for the first six weeks of the season...
...balcony. When Mike remonstrated with him, Marvin merely picked up a TV camera and shook it in Douglas' face as if it were a Brownie. Following a producer wielding a lollipop, Marvin made for the newsroom, hurled a typewriter through a partition, stomped on file cabinets and tore out acoustic tile so that he could swing on the steel beams above. His $2,700 rampage was finally stopped by a blowgun tranquilizer, and Marvin departed handcuffed to a stretcher. Said a shaken Douglas, hurriedly taking off his ape makeup: "You never know when they're going to revert...
...Cyprus progressed. They began even before the invasion with a July 15 picket line outside the Greek Consulate in Boston to protest the coup that overthrew Cypriot President Archbishop Makarios. At the most recent event, which took place at City Hall on August 13, a crowd of four thousand tore up a Turkish flag to protest the invasion and called for an end to U.S. military and economic aid to Turkey...
...Bruce's performance, say the producers, is worth enduring all his vagaries. The first time out, as Bruce bloodily "tore apart" a fellow actor, even the hard-crusted crew burst into applause. On a later occasion, as Bruce "tore apart" a victim, Actor Chris Rebello, 5, playing the son of the town's police chief, burst into terrified tears...