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Lost? Confused? In need of guidance? To aide the crowds that mill around Harvard every day, Cambridge has constructed its answer to the Johnston Gate Guardhouse: a Disneyland-style information booth in the heart of Harvard Square. The $35,000 pink and blue structure, funded and operated by a non-profit group called Cambridge Discovery, is primarily aimed at helping tourists with their information needs...
...high-tech razzle-dazzle of a consumer-electronics trade show. But most of the computer systems on display started at $50,000 and did a good deal more than play video games. At the booth of a company called Intellicorp, engineers from Ford Aerospace were showing off a program for troubleshooting balky satellites. At the Apollo Computer display, a firm called Visual Intelligence had a system to help nuclear-plant operators quickly interpret the kind of instrument readings that confused technicians at Three Mile Island. On a Digital Equipment computer, newspaper specialists from Composition Systems exhibited a program that lets...
...fact, the MBTA has left the Square in better shape than it found it. New landscaping, widened brick sidewalks, and a new home for the Square's bustling focal point, Out of Town News, now grace the Coop's front yard. A pink and blue Disneyland-style information booth, which opened in June, is the latest addition to the spiffed-up Square...
...working for himself, in a shop that he built from scrap lumber. He got a permit to sell used tires from a local policeman who knows the Valenzuelas are illegal. The officer assured the family that they can report crimes without fear of exposure. Los Angeles Police Commander William Booth explains, "If someone is a victim of crime, we need to know about it, and it's not our policy to inquire about their status...
Without a single person entering a polling booth, the City of Cambridge elected a new city councilor this week and set the stage for a mayoral election later this month...