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Thirty witnesses testified last night before the State Board of Bank Incorporation in opposition to the First National Bank Corporation's (FNBC) petition to merge with the Haverhill National Bank. The witnesses claimed the FNBC was in violation of the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act (CRA...
Although the $85 million dollar NASA-funded project has been directed by a consortium of four groups--CRA, MIT's Center for Space Research, Columbia University and the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland--the main impetus for the mission has come from 60 Garden St. Giacconi is the overall director of the Einstein Observatory, while scientific responsibility rests with Harvey Tannenbaum, an associate of the Harvard College Observatory...
...November 13 launch approached, a good part of the Center for Astrophysics revved up for the mass influx of raw data that soon would be arriving. All observation plans for and information analysis from HEAO-2's 0.6-meter reflection X-ray telescope are coordinated from CRA. It took a week for the first picture to arrive on the monitors in Room 306-B. That shot was of Cygnus X-1, a radiation source which many astronomers believe is a black hole, a compressed star with gravity so strong that light cannot escape from...
...resulting CRA "concept plan" called for 1700 apartment units, a million square feet of office space and seven high-rise towers that would have turned the Kendall Square area into something resembling downtown Boston. The plan enraged the Cambridge Tenants Organizing Committee (CTOC), Hard Times, and other groups of residents who pointed to the severe need for low income housing and blue collar employment that the CRA had ignored...
...City Council voted down the CRA plan in July 1973, calling instead for the development of light industry in the area. Four plans and 16 months later, the City Council finally voted last October 9 to accept the "Neighborhood Plan," a compromise mix of light industry, retail and office space, and relatively expensive housing...