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...Harvard-sponsored Blair Pond housing project faces a crucial test this week when the state Natural Resources Department decides whether or not to approve Harvard's plan to fill in the Cambridge pond and its surrounding wetlands adjacent to the Belmont town line...
...plan was to fill in the pond completely and use the whole seven acres for this housing development," Richard T. Kriebel, a Belmont resident, said yesterday...
...definitely against it; so is Cambridge," Winthrop Jameson, chairman of the Belmont Conservation Commission, said yesterday. "It'll just drown Belmont," he added. After a hearing held in June the Belmont Board of Selectmen voted against the project, contending that the filling in of the pond would cause flooding in the neighborhoods adjacent to the site...
...small when measured against those of the manufacturers of barber chairs. For many years they had a cozy industry; several domestic firms earned a steady profit by selling about 10,000 chairs a year to the U.S.'s 100,000 barbershops. Then in 1957, Osaka's Takara Belmont Co. slipped into the U.S. and began a classic Japanese takeover...
...everyday existence. Harvard English Professor Joel Porte, for example, sold his car four years ago, and hasn't "even been tempted" to own one since. Instead, Porte, 36, and his wife Ilana, 31, get by on ordinary $35 three-speed English bicycles; he makes the trip from Belmont, a Boston suburb, to the Cambridge campus in 17 minutes flat. Last week, just before her first baby was due, Mrs. Porte was still running errands by bike...