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Tonis has been interested in the Tunnel ever since, and when he became Chief of the University Police in 1962, one of the first things he did was to study its route. Harvard's network of steam tunnels (or simply, the Tunnel) extends for about three miles. It lies beneath the sub-basements of University buildings and connects the Business School, the Houses, the Yard, the Law School, and the science laboratories with the Cambridge Electric Company's steam generating plant on Western Avenue, several blocks below Dunster House. Unlike the Central Kitchens food tunnels (which are closer...
...most of its length the Tunnel is ten feet high, ten feet wide, well-lighted, and hot. It is accessible from the basements of many buildings and, in a few places, from the surface. Once inside the Tunnel one can easily get into many dormitories, museums, and lecture halls; for just this reason, doors into the Tunnel are kept locked at all times. The elusive German spy doubtless arranged for someone to leave one of these doors open and made his escape by coming up to the surface at some point well away from the river. (Tonis, incidentally, picked...
...first section of Tunnel was built in 1914, but it took years to construct the system that exists today. The line from Weld Hall in the Yard to Langdell Hall at the Law School, for example, was not completed until 1927. Before the Tunnel, each building had its own boiler to supply steam for heating radiator water and domestic water. Now, steam for almost the whole University comes from a single source...
...Norfolk, the bridge-tunnel is only a spectacular addition to its redevelopment program, which will be complete in another five years. Already the results are impressive. More than 181 acres of slums, amounting to roughly 85% of Norfolk's whole downtown area, have been knocked down and replaced with some $42 million worth of new buildings. Last week plans for a $100 million medical center were announced. A grassed and tree-lined pedestrian mall has replaced Main Street. The world's largest coal-loading dock has been built by the Norfolk and Western Railroad, and savings and loan...
With 2,500,000 vehicles using the new bridge-tunnel every year, booming Norfolk sees only progress ahead. "The sheer beauty," crooned the local Virginian-Pilot, "is a shining demonstration of the theme that form follows function, undulating up and down as with the waves of the bay it traverses...