Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the middle ground has proved to be quicksand. The rebels will not even talk to U.S. Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett Jr. if only because he was the first to cry Communist about their hard-core cadres. With Bennett cut off, President Johnson sent to the scene former Ambassador John Bartlow Martin, a friend of deposed Dominican President Juan Bosch, whose "constitutionalist" symbol the rebels were carrying. But the junta headed by Brigadier General Antonio Imbert Barreras remembered Martin as a promoter of Bosch and cut him cold. At that point, the U.S. had one pipeline to the junta...
...sycamore trees which line Memorial Drive near Boylston St. form a frontage for the Bennett St. MBTA Yards, the likely choice for the Kennedy Library. I.M. Pei, the Library's architect, has talked to MDC officials, including Whitmore and his predecessor Robert F. Murphy, about the Memorial Drive situation. He is reported to oppose the construction of the underpasses on aesthetic grounds...
...John F. Kennedy Memorial Library may be able to acquire the Bennett St. MBTA yards at less than their full market value, Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 said yesterday. "People who are close to the thing know that a price can be arranged," Crane told the City Council at its weekly meeting...
Crane's remarks followed a debate in the City Council over the desirability of locating the Library on the Yards. Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci introduced an order declaring that the "City Council go on record as favoring the Bennett St. Yards as the site of the proposed John F. Kennedy Memorial Library...
...seemed a cinch for lilies within the week. It was by an unestablished author, had no big-name director or stars, was starting in late season, and had only a scrawny $165 advance. But just because the odds seemed so overwhelmingly against it, Roses became a cause. Publisher Bennett Cerf took a personal ad to praise it, Harry Belafonte distributed promotional roses, and the box office slowly built just enough to keep Roses in bloom. Then two weeks ago, the New York Drama Critics Circle called it the best drama of the year and the cast broke out champagne. That...