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According to Webster's dictionary, an alewife is a small North American fish, resembling a shad, or a woman who operates an ale house. In Massachusetts, however, Alewife is also the name of a parkway running through the western part of Somerville. That's where the Metropolitan Boston Transit Authority (MBTA) is going to extend the Red Line from Harvard Square by 1982 or 1983, if everything goes according to schedule. Lucky for the Class of '82, things won't be too bad in the Square until March or April, when the heavy construction is scheduled to begin. But just...
...which in turn creates higher profits. In the first six months earnings jumped 16.3%, and for the full year should hit a record $1 billion. This year's surge, says Eastern Air Lines President Frank Borman, the former astronaut, "has been above our wildest expectation. We have become mass transit, and this may be as revolutionary as the introduction of the jet engine itself...
...bisected towns and villages and otherwise imposed easily remedied geographic hardships. More extensive border changes favoring Israel would be allowed, of course, with Arab approval. At the end of a predetermined period-perhaps five years-the West Bank and Gaza would be formally incorporated as a Palestinian homeland with transit rights (but not an extraterritorial corridor) guaranteed between the separated territories. Although this Palestinian homeland would have a government and the right to issue passports, there would be certain limits imposed initially on its sovereignty; thus the new country should be described as an "entity" rather than a nation...
...delicate hues as Director Moore's visual one. It is bold to plunk Rick's cafe down in Sam Spade's San Francisco. It is even mildly funny to have Victor Laszlo require his wife's old lover to help him get not letters of transit so he can escape the Nazis but a liquor license so he can open a French restaurant in Oakland. But when the song that reminds Rick of his lost love (As Time Goes By in the original) turns out to be Jeepers, Creepers, one can't help thinking that...
...Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) and Mitchell Sikors, assistant state attorney general, obtained a temporary restraining order from Suffolk Superior Court Judge John M. Greaney at 12:30 p.m., ordering the transit workers to return to work...