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After months of behind-the-scenes manuevering and hours of heated debate in their list two meetings, the Cambridge City Council failed Monday to approve new zoning ordinances for the last large tract of underdeveloped land in the city, leaving the 130-acreplotopen to almost unrestricted development...
Both the CDD prepared plan and, to an even greater extent the neighborhood group sizoning petition would have promoted light industry in the tract by limiting the developed and the percentage of each building used for office space. In addition. both proposals would have required new housing construction, with a certain number of units reserved for low and moderate-income residents...
...coil bacteria are normally present in the human digestive tract, and some scientists fear experimental cells escaping from the laboratory could infect otherwise healthy people...
...than Charley's Aunt updated or Myra Breckenridge toned down. In telling the tale of a man forced to get in touch with the feminine side of his nature and becoming a better man because of the experience, it triumphantly remains a farce for our times, not a tract for them. Despite the many creative hands involved, the picture has perfect comic tonality. It plays as if it were written by one wise and rueful individual, directed by someone who never felt a moment's anxiety...
...Phillips Petroleum Co. and Chevron U.S.A., a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. of California, paid a record $333.6 million for the right to explore for oil on a single 5,700-acre offshore tract in the Santa Maria basin off Point Arguello, Calif. Now that money looks like the down payment on a bonanza. Last month Phillips and Chevron announced that a test well had brought in a gusher, and expectations were heightened by several other successful drillings near by. Then last week Texaco confirmed the existence of a major oilfield by announcing crude flows from...