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Some waterfront residents feel that official claims about the cleanliness of the Thames are somewhat overblown, but even they acknowledge that the river is less polluted than at any time within memory. Betty Potts, who lives aboard a houseboat, notes that when a workman fell into the river three years ago, he was quickly rushed to a hospital to have his stomach pumped out. Now, she says, "I don't think the water could...
...Citizens living along the Merrimack River in Massachusetts, where Henry David Thoreau once paddled his skiff, were thankful that a workman at the Lawrence Dam spotted a 9½-lb. salmon last week...
...Polaroid camera shape of the Science Center, the steam tunnels are a part of Harvard legend. A cloudy mixture of fiction and fact, their dimensions expand with each prankster's tale and their history grows more fantastic. One story tells of a sly undergraduate who, dressed as a workman, avoided the winter snows by travelling to classes through the tunnels. During the 1969 occupation of University Hall, another rumor has it, Harvard administrators escaped invading protesters by fleeing through the underground passages. Once upon a time, the wrestling team jogged through the tunnels, sweating from the triple-digit temperatures...
...Hodges as the darling of the special interests and is trying to do the same with Helms. He stresses his achievements as a progressive insurance commissioner--the elimination of age, sex and race discrimination in the state's insurance rates, and the investigation of insurance companies that stonewall on workman's compensation payments...
Still, it remains true that Lynyrd Skynyrd was a workman-like but not overly sensational band which took a high-decibel brand of Southern-British boogie and a couple of great songs to the masses. In that mission they became victims, but in the ironic way of these things they have become better loved in death than they probably could have been in life. For those of you who are jumping on the Skynyrd band-plane in fulfillment of this time-honored truism: this album is not for you, it is for people who were fans all along and already...