Word: harbored
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carson Beach and Columbia Point sit on the edge, and no matter where you go you can see the Federal Reserve Bank on the horizon, so it's hard to convince anyone that Boston Harbor is a romantic place...
From Long Wharf, which just out into its murky waters, to the Brewster Islands--its farthest outposts--Boston harbor reeks of history, not to mention dead fish. For it was here that the British sailed furtively after their evacuation from Boston, it was here that great naval battles of the Revolution were fought, it was here that pirates hung for their crimes, it was here that the words and tune to John Brown's Body, later elevated to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, were composed...
...Robert Embry, 41, successfully guided Baltimore's redevelopment program from 1968 to the mid-1970s?using low-interest mortgages to attract middle-income residents to downtown and turning the blighted inner harbor area into a showplace of refurbished row houses and new businesses. He caught the eye of Carter, who appointed him Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. As the Administration's point man on urban distress, one of the toughest jobs in town, Embry created the Urban Development Action Grant program that is helping to save 327 distressed urban areas by encouraging private investment. To qualify for UDAG...
...Kennedy Library rises grandly from the edge of the Columbia Point Peninsula in Dorchester, six miles from Cambridge. Designed by I.M. Pei and Partners, the complex includes two theaters, a museum, an eight-story archive, and-to take advantage of the site's sweeping view of Boston harbor-a glass pavilion. "The location," says Library Director Daniel Fenn, "is a smash." Cambridge, we hardly know...
...purchased by Cleveland Amory's Fund for Animals. The conservationists' ship spotted Sierra 180 miles off the coast of Portugal and shadowed it toward Oporto, where it was expected to unload its cargo of whale products. Their probable destination: Japan. But when Sierra balked at entering the harbor, the leader of the antiwhaling expedition, Paul Watson, 28, of Vancouver, put Shepherd's captain and 14 crew members ashore, then headed back out to sea with two other crewmen...