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Blizzard second day

Description: Blizzard of '78. Snow falling and blowing. People digging out on Western Avenue. Plow on Storrow Drive. Chains on truck tires. Students and dogs on Harvard Square streets blanketed with snow. Cross-country skiers and people on snowshoes. Shots inside the news van, with radio reports on blizzard in the background. People trudge along Mt. Auburn St. and Mass. Avenue in Cambridge; some carry provisions on sleds. Massachusetts Avenue street sign. Man shovels out storefront. Deep snow banks. Tractor trailer jackknifed on Mass Ave. bridge over Charles River. People wait in line in front of White Hen Pantry.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/07/1978

Blood bank

Description: Red Cross blood bank. Dated packs of whole human blood on shelves labeled by type such as A negative in refrigerated cases. Carton marked Rush. Technicians examining vials of blood with ungloved hands. Chart showing number of units of each type stored. Plasma in box in freezer. Units being packed with ice in carton.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/12/1979

Blood shortage

Description: During summer, blood supply is low. Blood donors, blood bank at Beth Israel Hospital.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/16/1989

Blue Cross losses

Description: Blue Cross requests huge increase in Medex rates as compensation for losses and federal cutbacks in catastrophic coverage. This would put burden of higher premium on elderly.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/26/1989

Blue Hill Avenue

Description: Ride along Blue Hill Avenue. Decrepit, boarded up and abandoned storefronts. Many defunct businesses. Vacant lot. Zion Apostolic and Immanuel Pentecostal Churches. Warren Street intersection. Bridge Free Medical Van. Houses on Supple Road. Prince Hall Masonic Lodge. Sign for the Mayor's Office of Housing. Street sweeping vehicle. Mayor Kevin White walks with Julian Bond through neighborhood with press entourage. White answers questions about his candidacy and housing policy decisions as mayor especially involving the Boston Housing Authority, and says urban revitalization will come to reality within 3-5 years but need more federal $$. White and Bond meet local business owners and community members.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/20/1979

Blue Hill Avenue environs

Description: Environs of Blue Hill Avenue and Morton Street in Roxbury. Drive by decrepit boarded up storefronts and abandoned lots. Graffiti and trash abound. Sign "Mayors [sic] Office Public Service of Franklin Field Little City Hall."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News

Blue Hill Avenue traffic

Description: Sen. Bill Owens comments on dangerous traffic on Blue Hill Avenue. Problems: road used as drag strip, accidents involving stolen cars and drivers leaving scene, speeding, sideswiping, children in harm's way. Wants appropriate criminal category defined between manslaughter and vehicular homicide. Storefronts, youth crossing street. Minister Don Straughter (aka Muhammad) talks about Muslim mission in the community: teaching respect, eschewing alcohol, cleaning up empty lots.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/30/1982

Blue Laws repeal

Description: Press conference on repeal of Blue Laws in Massachusetts to allow retail sales on Sundays. Heads of Chambers of Commerce. Rep. Tim Bassett.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1982

Blue Line expansion

Description: Wonderland Blue Line station in Revere. Train pulls up to platform, passengers get on. Walking tour of Central Square in Lynn, where transit station is proposed as necessary for much needed economic development. Comments from Urban Mass Transportation (UMTA) administrator Theodore Lutz about rapid transit extension.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1980

Blue laws

Description: Governor Edward King speaks on lifting blue laws to permit Sunday business. King signs bill that allows businesses to open Sundays, although the law prohibits forcing anyone to work Sundays. King states that this bill will increase job opportunities.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/22/1982