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Triple deckers: The three-story townhouses that the majority of people in Mission Hill inhabit. Harvard tore down many of these in order to make room for the power plant and is letting others fall into disrepair so it has an excuse to rip them down and build another hospital...
...scene of the colossal blast, which tore a 4-ft. crater in the main waiting room and destroyed one entire side of the station, Bologna's mourners created their own folk shrine to the dead. Bouquets of carnations and gladioli were tossed, some with photographs of victims attached. Lines of young travelers with rucksacks paused thoughtfully on the way to their trains. By week's end vases of flowers could be seen among the plastic-covered bouquets stacked at the scene of the explosion, thus giving an air of permanence to the site. Occasionally a housewife would kneel...
Moments later, Bogie slipped the ball to Romero charging in from the left. Romero's shot tore into the right corner of the net, and the Cosmos led, 1-0. Brand shook his head and clenched his fists...
...Mike became a good enough football player to be offered an athletic scholarship at Arizona State, but he turned it down ("I played the game for fun"), tried a few courses at the University of Southern California, then took up speedboat racing. A crack-up a few years later tore his back muscles, dislocated both hips and persuaded him to try another vocation. His father, newly elected Governor, was concerned. "Dad kept asking me, 'What's your future going to be?' " he recalls. "I'd tell him, 'I'm a late bloomer, just like...
...KOVIC was born on the Fourth of July, 1946. When he was twenty-one, a Vietnamese thirty-caliber slug tore through his right shoulder, blasted through his lung and smashed his spinal cord to pieces...