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Amateur athletes may miss the vacant lot abutting the Kennedy School of Government which, since it became public land in 1976, has been host to innumerable touch football games as well as a few schemes by the Cambridge City Council to use the site for public housing...
...Newry operation--dubbed "Bloody Thursday" by the British press--began when two masked I.R.A. men hijacked a truck. Later, the makeshift mortar tubes were bolted onto the flatbed and the vehicle was then driven into town and parked in a vacant lot close to the R.U.C. station. The nine metal tubes on the truck--each 6 ft. long and 6 in. in diameter--were linked by detonating wires, suggesting to police that they had been fired by timing devices. Despite the apparent sophistication of the weapon, not all the shells found their target. Some fell in front of the station...
...tentative agreement ends a seven-year-old controversy over the fate of the now vacant Craigie Arms apartments, located across from the new Charles Square complex on Brattle St. Harvard bought the 88-year-old apartment building, which with 60 units was one of the city's largest, in 1967. Harvard stopped re-renting units in 1978 arising that the building was deteriorating rapidly and needed a major overhaul. Since then, the building's been in limbo-it's been a thorn in Harvard's side, the Rent Control Board's side, the City Council's side, the tenants coalition...
...Chris Boyce (Timothy Hutton) feels isolated too, trapped in America; but here Schlesinger dares not flirt with political or visual subtlety. Everyone is an oaf but our lad. Mom (Joyce Van Patten) is dithery, and Dad (Pat Hingle) scares the falcon, and Chris' girlfriend (Lori Singer) is one big vacant California erogenous zone. His treason is pinned on mid-America, not so much for the evil of its ways as for the banality of its style. Affluence is flatulence; good intentions are to laugh at; filial piety is worth nothing but betrayal...
Within a year, Citrus Park underwent some remarkable changes. Houses were painted and repaired, gardens were planted, crime rates fell, garbage was , collected. So Lindsey went downtown in his blue jeans and ponytail and applied for the vacant job of city housing-authority director. The housing commissioners at first "freaked out," he says, then listened to his ideas and astonishingly gave...