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...nexus between Bellotti, PCM and MBM appears to have been thicker all the time. Bellotti, after he was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1962, created four administrative assistant positions in his office, one of which was filled by Daniel Burke, who was one of three Essex County commissioners. In turn, Burke was acquainted with William Harding, one of the PCM officials, on a social basis before the Essex County contract was awarded to PCM, which at that time had no professional employees...
Taxi drivers, long the salvation of sourceless journalists, are emerging as informal town criers, transmitters in a complicated nexus of jungle drums that would confuse Margaret Mead. Bernie Stolar, vice president of a small communications firm, first heard that Menachem Begin was in town after the Camp David summit when the taxi Stolar was taking to work encountered a traffic jam near the Waldorf-Astoria and his driver explained that Begin had just arrived. Shrugs Stolar: "It was news...
...linksters are hoping to kick off the season on an upbeat note with a strong showing in the Yale Tournament, which is a nexus for talent-laden squads from the entire East coast...
When I finally heard the news, I was digging up ancient medieval ruins outside an historic back-water of a town in Italy--Tarquinia, which had once been a main nexus of the Etruscan civilization. The Etruscans were shepherds who set up a culture that the Romans subsequently built on. I appreciated the irony of standing on top of the roots of Western civilization when one of the Italian kids on the team came running down the path to our site waving a copy of Italy's major communist newspaper, l'Unita, with a headline proclaiming what so many have...
...fight for AA must be placed in the overall fight for democratic rights. An aggressive, visible student movement must be built to safeguard rights and press forward the elimination of discrimination and oppression. Harvard must be seen as the nexus of this reactionary campaign and so it is only appropriate Harvard be the site for a new era in the student movement...