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...obstactle to transfering ownership of the land may lie with the MDC which is obligated by state law to reserve the tract for extension of the Belmont-Arlingon MTA line. Nevertheless, Rep. O'Neill said last night that the law "probably could be taken care...
...Arthur D. Little spokesman said that NASA has not indicated an interest in the swamp tract, which adjoins the company's plant. He blamed "some wishful citizens in West Cambridge" for the "unfounded rumor" that NASA was considering the site...
...circulation through the liver is blocked by disease, the blood backs up into the veins lining the gullet (esophagus) and sometimes the stomach as well. The swollen, twisted veins are called varices. Their thin walls are prone to break and let blood ooze, or even gush, into the digestive tract. To squeeze the veins shut and thus stop the bleeding, two New York surgeons, Dr. Robert W. Sengstaken and Dr. Arthur H. Blakemore, devised a most ingenious triple tube...
...modern pavement on which the characters walk is fractured by the inexplicable convulsions of the Space Age. Coverly, exiled to the noncommunity of a missile base, finds the apparently human personnel recognize each other's existence no more than so many shades in a picture-window limbo of tract houses. His brother Moses, apparently better equipped than his dreamy brother to achieve success and enjoy its rewards, is defeated by the metamorphosis of his wife Melissa. Once the personification of love, she is transformed into a spirit of hostile chastity, and then into a voracious nymphomaniac, with Circe...
...Diego-with no houses around, no sewage or water service-is $3,500 an acre. Sometimes the price can kill a project. After land along a Houston freeway doubled in price, developers would have had to put up homes in the $30,000 class to make a profit. The tract lies vacant because no one wants to pay that much to live by the side of a highway...