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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Danchy's real worry, however, is not battling his fellow councilors or Harvard officials, but matching blow for blow with the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA), the agency that wants to extend the Red Line through Harvard Square. As he speaks of it, his manners change and his eyes light...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Danehy: It's Happened Before | 2/20/1979 | See Source »

...Werner Stiller, 31, a lieutenant in East Germany's dreaded secret police and espionage agency. Miller had been working as a spy for West Germany. Now, following orders from Bonn's counterintelligence agents, he was fleeing to the West on the S-Bahn, the prewar rapid transit that still connects the divided city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: The S-Bahn Spy | 2/5/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately for the construction firm hired by the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which is attempting to dig such a hole at the corner of Mass. Ave and Garfield St.--building a haul shaft is a very dirty and noisy operation...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Digging In | 2/3/1979 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) voted recently to allocate $43,000 for archaelogical investigations of construction sites adjacent to the route of the MBTA's Red Line extension, including a site uncovered last summer in Harvard Yard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MBTA to Fund Peabody Study Of Artifacts Unearthed in Yard | 2/2/1979 | See Source »

...other times, though, the messages seem lost in transit. For instance, Groffo dances on a table at Dave's baptism. He flails about in a russet suit on an orange tablecloth, only to fall on an orange roast pig which has an orange in its mouth and is lit by orange candles at its head. For Groffo to fall on the pig is appropriate but for everything to be orange makes no sense...

Author: By Anna Simons, | Title: Be My Gypsy | 1/26/1979 | See Source »

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