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Boston's recycling effort also includes six acres of early 19th century buildings between the old town hall, Faneuil Hall, and the waterfront. The five-story structures, which for 150 years housed fruit, vegetable and meat markets, attracted two groups of people. Preservationists wanted to turn them into a museum. Some developers wanted to raze them and put the valuable downtown land to a more profitable use. But Cambridge Architect Ben Thompson had another idea. Why not modernize the buildings' interiors, recondition the exteriors and keep them as markets? The buildings could then turn a profit...
...extravagance and dissipation," it seemed for a while that the delegates had unwittingly aided the enemy. Patriots felt bound to observe the ban while British occupying forces ignored it, thus turning the theatre into a vehicle of Loyalist propaganda. In Boston, for instance. General John ("Gentleman Johnny") Burgoyne transformed Faneuil Hall, the Patriot meetinghouse, into a playhouse. There he mounted productions of his own works, notably the scurrilous anti-American satire The Blockade of Boston. (Justice was poetically served, however, when the British actor-soldiers were unceremoniously routed from the stage in mid-performance last January by news...
Carter press secretary Jody Powell said that yesterday was Carter's last day of campaigning in the Bay State, and there were no plans to return Tuesday night. After the Faneuil Hall speech the Carter campaign convoy made a brief but high-in-symbolic-content visit to Salem before taking off for the South from Logan Airport...
Speaking to a mostly young, college-age crowd, which filled Boston's Faneuil Hall to capacity, Udall said he disagreed with the idea shared by President Ford and Ronald Reagan that a choice must be made between fighting inflation and solving the unemployment problem...
...coalition of local political organizations staged a rally in Boston's Faneuil Hall Saturday afternoon to urge support for the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), one of three factions engaged in the civil war in the African nation...