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...fifteen years, high rise commercial and apartment buildings may cluster around the Library site, intruding into Brattle Square and extending down Mt. Auburn St. Many city officials, planners, and architects envision this type of change. They expect the visual and commercial character of the Square to be altered drastically...
...banker and real estate operator who grew rich in Milan's postwar boom, Zingone will ultimately pour $40 million into the venture. Zingonia began three years ago when he bought a cluster of five hamlets, two of which were conveniently classified as "depressed areas." There he is setting up prefabricated factories and warehouses for sale to firms attracted by the benefits given to depressed areas: ten-year freedom from taxes, plus cheap 5% government loans. So far 112 firms, German, Dutch and Swiss as well as Italian, have begun turning out products ranging from ceramics to motorcycles...
...received treatment for a virus at the jail, was hospitalized only after he assured Sheriff William Decker that he was feeling "not worth a damn." Though the precise source of Ruby's cancer remained undetermined, tests showed a malignancy in a lymph node in his neck and a cluster of nodules in the chest and lungs. So far advanced is the cancer that doctors ruled out surgery and radiation, instead gave Ruby regular intravenous doses of 5-fluorouracil, a drug that starves cancerous cells and, when successful, slows the deadly spread of the disease...
...though seriously burned about the face and hands-it cost him his mustache and six weeks in hospital-he assumed command until help arrived the next day. He came out of service in 1946 wearing a lieutenant colonel's silver leaves and a bronze star with oakleaf cluster...
...earth circles the sun, it cuts through 1866 I's trail every November slicing into the thin stream of widely dispersed debris that produces the Leonid showers. In 1833, the earth's course took it through the middle of the main cluster of Leonids that follow closely behind the parent comet; it encountered a vastly larger number of meteoroids than usual. Just 33 years later, in November 1866, there was another fiery but less spectacular shower; the main cluster orbiting the sun once every 33¼ years was still three months away...