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Cambridge environs

Description: Cambridge City Hall exterior. Draper Labs building near Kendall Square. Porter Square Shopping Center sign and Mass. Avenue traffic. Cambridge Common with bare trees. Old newspaper article and photo of Mayor Edward Quinn.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/12/1979

Hancock buildings

Description: Looking toward John Hancock glass tower over MIT dome from Main Street, Cambridge, at NECCO Candy factory. Then in Boston, close view of Hancock next to Trinity Church, which is also reflected in glass facade. Pan between building and fair weather clouds in blue sky. Grid of windows on monolith. Pan from busy intersection of Kenmore Square to Hancock.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/04/1979

MIT Flight Simulator

Description: MIT Flight Simulator, air traffic control radar monitor shots, interview with Mr. Connelly about his proposal to FAA regarding changing current practices to minimize the number of airline near-miss accidents. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/05/1979

Murals in Cambridge

Description: Saginaw Avenue on Cambridge Somerville line near Elm Street behind Porter Square shopping center. Mural on back of Star Market on Davenport Street. Mural on brick side of Inman Square fire station. Entrance to The Proposition improvisation theater with silhouettes mural. Mural of horse-drawn wagon. Rowboat mural in Central Square. Colorful totem-like painted bricks. Cartoonish musicians painted on brick wall. Large stylized mural of Victorian house near Orson Welles Cinema. Interview with woman at Cambridge Arts Council about placement of public murals and environmental art installations; how they match artists' proposals with community interests.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/23/1979

Radioactive waste disposal

Description: Interview about disposal of low-level radioactive waste at MIT. Can store six months' worth from research. Lab environs from which the waste is a byproduct.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1979

W.R. Grace site in North Cambridge

Description: W.R. Grace silo tower, tanks, and industrial buildings in Alewife area of North Cambridge. Barrel tipped over on snowy ground. Smoke or steam issuing from exhaust stacks and vents. Corroded sign on post in ground “Danger Acid.” Pool of sludge adjacent to building. Big blue tank surrounded by rusted pipes. Indeterminate tan substance spread over ground next to bleachers. Interview with Mr. Stuart (of MBTA?) about chemical analysis of conditions on the future construction site of the red line extension tunnel. “We're getting strange high acid readings in the ground water” but not sure exactly what kind of contamination.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/14/1979