Plywood Tower Owners File Suit Over Falling Glass in Boston
Hancock Mutual files a Superior Court suit in Cambridge charging negligence by architect I M Pei and Partners, Gilbane Building Co, H H Robertson, Libby Owens Ford, and insurers. Dozens of 5 by 11 foot glass panes fell from the Hancock Tower in Boston in 1972, prompting massive replacements and delays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cambridge
Mass
Hancock
Boston
John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co
New England
I.M. Pei and Partners
New York
Gilbane Building Co
Providence
R.I
HH. Robertson Co
Pittsburgh
Libby- Owens-Ford Co
Toledo
Ohio
Aetna Casualty and Prety and
Federal Insurance
Gilbane, Robertson
Libby-Owens-Ford
Pei
Shooting Death Investigated in Merrimack
Merrimack police probe the shooting death of 61 year old John Dufresne whose body was found on Green's Pond Road. An autopsy found five gunshot wounds, with bullets recovered but no gun located. Assistant Attorney General Robert Johnson said no suspects yet and the motive remains unknown.
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Merrimack, N.H
John Dufresne
Merrimack
Green's Pond Road
Robert John
Son
Dufresne
Johnson
Ice Age peccary alive found in Paraguay Chaco
University of Connecticut professor Dr. Ralph Wetzel says a living peccary, Tagua or Catagonus Wagneri, has been found in Paraguay's Chaco. He plans live trapping with students next summer to study numbers and habits and consider breeding programs with zoos in D C and New York.
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California
Wetzel
Biological Sciences
Chaco
Texas
U.S
Argentina
Central America
Wagneri
Africa
National Zoological Park
District of Columbia
Bronx Zoo
New York
Uconn
Paraguay
National Geographic Society
University of Connecticut Research Founda
Tion
Grou Wetzel
United States
Lavatory Graffiti Replaced by Student Art at Lebanon School
At Lebanon Elementary School the graffiti in lavatories has been transformed into student art featuring flowers, sunshine, animals, and bells. Principal Albert Vertefeuille and art teacher Judy Blake led students to decorate stalls after a year of planning. Students scrubbed areas clean before painting and later expanded decoration efforts to plant shrubs and trees outside, fostering pride in the school.
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Lebanon
Conn
Albert Vertefeuille
Judy Blake
Vertefeuille
Hearing Sought in Vermont Kidnapping Case
Vermont Governor Salm intervenes in the Schuppin case asking Connecticut to hold a hearing before extraditing Elizabeth Schuppin of Jericho on a conspiracy to kidnap charge. Attorney Burgess says heand others sought a hearing. three men were arrested after Tamara Schuppin’s abduction outside a Windsor shoping center.
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Montpelier
Vermont
Thomas P. Salmon
Schuppin
Connecticut
Ella Grasso
Jericho
John A. Burgess
Elizabeth JI
Salmon
Grasso
Tamara
Windsor
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Ing
Insurance Company
York County Savings Bank
Family Financial Center
Biddeford
Saco Valley
Saco
Shoppers Village
Kennebunk
FDIC
Doris
Rentschler Airport
East Hartford
Martin
ARRAN
Martin’s
Hearth & Cricket Shop
Elm ST
B. & S. Water
Lavatory
Deering Lumber
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