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DUST STORM IN BOSTON BOSTON, Mass., May 11.— Boston was visited today by a dust storm which markedly cut down sunlight intensity and visibility. "Prof. Charles F. Brooks, director of the ! Blue Hill Meteorological Observatoiy of Harvard University, said it was the most Intense dust storm over this area since 19C1. Professor Brooks said that visibility from Blue Hill was only five miles, compared with the usual range of forty-five miles. The intensity of sunlight, he said, was cut down one-half from the record of yesterday, a typical clear May day,