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Pondville Hospital

Description: Pondville Hospital exterior in Norfolk. Snow on ground. State public health facility specializing in cancer treatment.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/02/1979

Pope John Paul II

Description: Pope John Paul II n Washington, D.C.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/07/1979

Porter Square T construction

Description: Construction of Porter Square T station on extension of MBTA red line. Heavy equipment and workers in front of BayBank branch. Traffic backed up on Massachusetts Avenue. Perini crane. Claw shovel excavates pit, releases dirt into dump truck.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/20/1979

Proposed Lynn container terminal

Description: Interview with Arthur Lane, president of Boston Shipping Association, on importance of having new container port serving Boston to maintain shipping industry. Proposes new facility in Lynn across Gen. Edwards Bridge because of accessibility and lack of conflicting use. Parsons Brinckerhoff estimates $132 million to build with five container cranes. Major dredging necessary. Japanese companies already threaten to stop shipping to port of Boston because it is too slow. Potential for 45,000 jobs in 15 years. Lane says Boston lacks foresight to develop shipping industry, is second class, and could become just a barge depot for Halifax and NYC. Boston money “too tied up in trust funds in financial district.” Map, aerial photo and artist's rendering.
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

Red Cross blood center

Description: Northeast Regional Red Cross Blood Program Center building in rain. Inside lab technicians process blood and components in rotating coiled tubes. Numbered vials of blood in racks. Lab worker peers into microscope. Centrifuge spins and slows to stop. Technician with gloved hands draws plasma from test tubes. Typed units (A positive, B negative, etc.) in plastic packs on refrigerated shelves. Units packed in carton marked "Rush Human Blood" lined with styrofoam and covered with ice bag for shipping to University Hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1979

Rotary in Revere

Description: Traffic driving incessantly around rotary in Revere. Sign for Route 107.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/22/1979

Roxbury murder hotline

Description: Murder hotline established at Roxbury YMCA to gather tips to capture killer(s) of nine black women. Interview with Sgt. Murphy about community reaction. Rotary dial telephone.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/03/1979

Roxbury street scenes

Description: Roxbury street scenes. Black pedestrians. Grove Hall bus. Squeal of orange line elevated trolley on overhead tracks. People board bus. Nubian Notion on Dudley Street. Traffic, many taxis pass through intersection. District 2 Boston police station. Cars on Columbia Road. Two UPI B+W stills of murder scene on Fellows Street.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/23/1979

Safdie's North Station plan

Description: Mayor Kevin White holds press conference in Boston Garden lobby to announce Moshe Safdie's plan to redevelop North Station area. Credits BRA director Robert Ryan, standing by, for inspiration. Safdie explains plan, pointing to massive architectural model. It involves creating an island in the Charles River, moving the elevated green line trolley, and either a new arena for Celtics and Bruins or a major renovation of the Garden.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/24/1979