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Well sir, they are stamping on the faces of the poor again. For the second time in four months, they have jacked up the fare on Boston's one-lung transit system so that it now costs fifteen cents to go a mile and a half and catch a ball game at Braves Field. Hereafter, it would almost be cheaper to own a car, provided of course, you could find some place to park...
...have always felt that the operation of a transit system is a legitimate function of municipal government. Therefore, it is a poor idea to overload the MTA riders with what seems to us to be outrageously high fares in terms of the services offered. We think that the mere existence of the MTA greatly enhances the value of the real estate in the Boston area. It is more fitting that the burden of metropolitan transit deficits should fall on the landowners of the individual municipalities which encompass the system. They are the most able to pay, and also gain considerably...
...general, but the general offered no clue. Nearby a mustachioed captain of colonial infantry, stern devotion to duty written all over his young face, looked up at an overweight nude (see cut). As a statesman turned his frock-coated back, a nameless admiral, whose neck, broken in transit, gave him more the look of a fey midshipman, cast a come-hither glance at a Grecian faun...
...fellow aldermen weren't so understanding of the "professor." From the start, Douglas was a gadfly, a windmill-tilter, a nagging conscience and a sponsor of lost causes. He banged away at the corrupt school system, at excessive transit fares, at the enormous city budget. He published an audit of his city salary showing that he netted only $16.72 for the year after paying the expenses of office. The boys resented the implication that only a grafter could make ends meet...
...nine, when after school chores in his father's shop were in order. These chores were good experience in more than shoemaking. Rushing the growler for his father, Peter found it expeditions to slip off a hit of the beer that might otherwise have spilled in transit. "In a family of fourteen, anyhow, there never was enough milk for everybody...