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...contrast the Louisville boycott seems to be losing steam. In fact, 81% of the 124,000 pupils in the newly merged Louisville and Jefferson County school systems were in classes last week. Antibusing violence is ebbing. The night that the remainder of the 1,000 National Guard troops pulled out, some demonstrators took to the streets near Southern and Valley high schools, but their protest was almost orderly; a few ended up shaking hands with the police...
Harvard and the medical institutions have abused and divided Mission Hill by claiming that a much-needed housing project in the area cannot be built without first constructing the power plant, because the plant will supply free steam, cooling and chilled water to the housing...
...inconceivable that in 1975 in New England, anyone would seriously propose that an electric-generating and steam power plant should be constructed on Brookline Ave. in the middle of some of the finest hospitals in the world," Murphy has contended at hearings throughout the summer. Instead, Murphy offers his own joint proposal with MASCO wherein the institutions would build their own steam plant and Edison would continue to supply power through a transformer station that could be constructed a few blocks away...
Although Murphy and Grady are both in favor of the housing projects, neither buys the contention that the homes are contingent on the plant's construction. Grady calls the linkup blackmail, while Murphy contends that because Edison is supplying electricity to the housing, only a small steam unit is needed for the housing...
...Meany's unions could well revise their work rules. His Plumbers and Pipefitters require two pipefitters and a welder to hook up the piping on a steam trap about the size of a breadbox. If American farmers worked the same way, there would be 20 men on a combine and wheat would be $10 a bushel...