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...Beanie Federal Way, Wash...
Five members and an attorney for the Mission Hill Planning Commission (MHPC) told the Boston Redevelopment Authority that the research tower's size will induce a "down-wash" effect, deflecting downward hazardous nitrous oxide exhaust from Harvard's Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP), two blocks away...
Soap was in such short supply that a doctor complained in a weekly newspaper that physicians were unable to wash their hands properly. New mothers were discharged from hospitals after only a day for fear that their babies might contract an infection if they stayed longer. Indeed, because of the poor diet, the lack of medicines and even rudimentary hygienic supplies, the population was suffering from an epidemic of viruses...
...profits of family-owned textile businesses amounted to $1.5 billion last year, or about as much as Montedison and the rest of the chemical industry lost. Prato has 15,000 "factories," of which 13,000 employ ten people or fewer. The yellow stucco houses present strange sights: family wash hanging out of the upstairs windows, while lower floors are filled with spindles, looms and dye vats...
...just does not wash. One is left with a succession of classy, spooky images, a titillated but unsatisfied imagination and the feeling that there is both less and more here than met Pakula's excellent eye. -By Richard Schickel