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...Square Business Association, a group heavily influenced by the more secure companies in Cambridge--the banks, the Coop and the theaters. Although Chamber of Commerce officials stress the non-partisan nature of their group, they also favor the extension plans. Both of these groups, says Danehy, are having the wool pulled over their eyes. The small-store owners on Mass. Ave. have taken the other side. They're worried about the 60-odd parking spaces on Mass. Ave. which may be permanently lost. Some of them are predicting that they will have to relocate or go into bankruptcy because...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Squeaky Wheel on the Red Line | 11/17/1978 | See Source »

...pulling the wool over somebody's eyes," Gardner said, "There have to be 50 cases in Winthrop House...

Author: By Ronald D. Ryan, | Title: Salmonella Ravages Winthrop | 11/2/1978 | See Source »

...avid skier, he takes a week off each year to schuss in the Tatras, dressed in baggy wool pants and old-style lace-up boots. His only concession to luxury is a pair of Head skis. Another friend, who calls him "one of the daredevil skiers in the Tatras,"adds, "He loves the thrill of it, the danger." Once, during a midwinter interview with TIME'S Bonn bureau chief, William Mader, Wojtyla gazed out the window of his residence and said, "I wish I could be out there now somewhere in the mountains, racing down into a valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreign Pope | 10/30/1978 | See Source »

...women is needed to make old Crimson codgers begin to believe that power is more than a myth, let them consider this. In the lightweight men's race a Radcliffe eight, all women, outraced a Colgate eight, all men. Granddad better tell his third generation, dyed in the wool Harvard male chauvinist to get back on the erg. Big Bertha's closing...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Mixing Things Up | 10/24/1978 | See Source »

...giant desk will cost about $3,500; the chair another $700. A couple of comfy sofas carry price tags of about $4,500 each. The main room and an adjoining den are being paneled in Philippine mahogany and carpeted with 85 yds. of virgin New Zealand wool that costs about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Royal Trappings | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

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