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...iron New England dark. What we must do, we from more gracious climes, is to try to preserve our passion amidst what often seems an all-compelling frigidity. Again, how flattering to be thought of during such an important moment. Kevin Starr Assistant Prof. of English Aliston Burr Senior Tutor, Eliot House
Barney Frank '62, Aliston Burr Senior Winthrop House, has been advising students in the draft-eligible portions class definitely to take the test. He feels that it would be "very surprising" for a Harvard student not to gain exemption on the basis of his scores...
Furthermore, Mayor Collins - until then a strong supporter of the Aliston BRA project - said that he had "recommended to the Boston Redevelopment Authority that it re-open the question of the best use of the six-acre tract after it has been cleared and that it reconsider as well the method of selecting a developer." (Italics supplied.) He continued that the recently enacted Housing Act of 1965 "makes it possible to achieve lower rents than were possible when the project was first planned." He proposed a blue-ribbon committee be selected to evaluate the best use of the land...
This is the aim of the Washington mission. Will they succeed in preserving their homes? Will Aliston become too loaded a political issue to ram the project through? Observers will just have to wait and see. At least one thing is certain, however: people with a knife sharpened either for urban renewal or for Mayor Collins will be watching with great interest indeed. And there are a lot of such people around...
Goldin will try to contact other national figures on the Washington journey, and if he can get them to come out against the microcosmic Aliston project, the publicity generated will certainly make it very tough on Mayer Collins. And it will sorely tempt more local officials to link their names to the growing list of those coming out in favor of the tiny group at North Harvard. The issue could approach the status of Motherhood as something a politician had better be in favor...