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...ambitions of a condor. In fact, it was a 1,500-ft. red polyethylene tube, filled with 4,500 cu. ft. of helium. The line rose over the skyline and began to dance, guided by twelve men straining on guy ropes on the roof far below. One link tore off as the wind lashed it against the nearby Gulf Building and floated away above the Allegheny River. Confesses the man who devised the spectacle, German Kinetic Artist Otto Piene: "I haven't heard where it came down, but apparently it didn't do any harm." The event...
Infighting at its meeting last night nearly tore apart the Allston community group that has been trying to block the building of a boys' club in Allston's Ringer Park, just after the group won its battle to stop construction of the club...
...Great Mystery. I tore up my ticket and watched Phil Grimm, the winning jockey, being led before the crowd...
Nader's Raiders struck again last week. This time their target was the Federal Food and Drug Administration, which they tore apart in what may well be the most devastating critique of a U.S. Government agency ever issued...
...sheet of flame enveloped the vehicle. As the driver struggled free of the flames, hundreds of homeward-bound pedestrians crowded into the area. As it turned out, the blazing car was only a deadly preface. Moments after it caught fire, the first in a series of massive gas explosions tore through the crowds. "When I regained consciousness," recalled one survivor, "I lay flat on the street about 40 ft. from where I had stood." Said another: "It was a mass slaughterhouse...