CIA STARGATE release
CIA-RDP96-00792R000700150001-4
Opens with: "the hub of the solar system." Orig
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"Hub of the universe," Bostonians call their city, magnifying Oliver Wendell Holmes's more modest as- sessment that its State House was "the hub of the solar system." Orig- inally a scrawny neck of land poking seaward, Boston fleshed out during the 19th century as developers filled in the marshy acreage of Back Bay and the South End. Foundations for the city's schools, hospitals, and great financial institutions were laid then or strengthened. Annexing communities like East and South Boston, Charlestown and Roxbury, Boston left independent- minded neighbors such as Cambridge and Brookline to themselves. Today an encircling ring of a hundred cities and towns dwarfs Boston proper, whose 660,000 people are only part of the more than'three million inhab- itants in the metropolitan area. Approved For Release 2001/03/07 : CIA-RDP96-00792R000700150001-4 Somerville SAUANKER HIL MONUMENT US NAVAL RESERVATION Charlestown/ East Boston Boston Inner Harbor Çambrid West SAAK REVERE NOUSE. End AVERNMENT OTT a QUINET MARKET Beacon Hill HOLD STATE HOUSE RESQUARE - HOUSE B PHOSTON 'ATHENAEUM 7 \" SSPGRANARY BOMERST BURYING GROUND BRIMSTONE CORNER SOUTH Back Bay TAVERN China - $ Concord Lotingts Lynn 4 THỊHH SẢY CHURCH OF Walthe Maria. . ARST SOTNIST FRANCE.5 chusetts COSTO INTERNATIOIDE 9 BOSTON Pasburg CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC BLACKSTONE SQUARE Rapid transit system Needham FRANKLIN SQUARE GROVE CHOUNO X BELOW GROUND Dedham 0 Built-up areas in brown WORCESTER SQUARE STATUTE MILE STATUTE N' SHAWN BY JAIME QUINTERO COMINLEO AY DOROTHY A MICHC , SOR - ATKM Readin town Bay Villas STATION South Boston - Boston NEW ENGLAND .i.r .Dorchester South End a'A Charles River CITY LMATE Approved,For Release 2001/03/07: CIA-RDP96-00792R000700150001-4 totrers of downtown.