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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

Robert Foster on MBTA

Description: Video starts with people speaking over color bars. B-roll of Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority advisory board meeting. Interview with Robert Foster, chair of MBTA. He is requesting a larger operating budget. He discusses the work done by the MBTA and their attempts develop a better relationship with the advisory board. He speaks of plans for transportation demands during Pope John Paul II's visit. They shoot cutaways. Interview with Ed Novakoff, advisory board representative from Brookline, who complains about green line LRVs, and does not support giving the MBTA a larger operating budget. Several takes of reporter standup in the MBTA lot, with buses in the background.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/21/1979

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

Route 1

Description: Route 1 near junction of Revere, Malden and Saugus. Shot from moving vehicle. Additional shots of traffic from the side of the road, both oncoming and receding automobiles. Close-up on dilapidated surface of road and crumbling concrete bridge parts.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/11/1979

Rowers on Charles River

Description: Rowers on Charles River near Harvard, practicing for regatta. One-, five-, and nine-person shells. All male and all female crews. Exteriors of boat house. Florida Institute of Technology team bus.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/19/1979

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

Sailboats on the Charles River

Description: Environmentals: Sailboats on the Charles River. .
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/04/1979