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...recurring themes of the speaker's charges were that the BRA engineered sham committees to represent neighborhood occupants, bulldozed neighborhoods that could be rehabilitated, and robbed the poor to line the pockets of the rich...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Renewal Foes Blast 'Boston Bulldozer' | 10/27/1965 | See Source »

...order to foil the BRA, John Harrington, President of SHOC, Self-Help Organization Charlestown, called for a defeat of pro-renewal City Council members, and the enactment of a law that would allow a neighborhood to veto an urban renewal project...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Renewal Foes Blast 'Boston Bulldozer' | 10/27/1965 | See Source »

...controversy over the BRA's plan to replace private homes in North Harvard with high-rise, high-rent apartments, attracted state and national attention this summer when the 11, including two Harvard graduates, Steven B. Goldin '64 and James B. Wheelis '64, were arrested in two separate incidents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charges Waived In BRA Protest | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

After the arrests, State Senator Beryl W. Cohen (D-Brookline) filed an emergency bill to modify the North Harvard renewal plan. The bill, requiring the BRA to change its program from demolition to rehabilitation, was discharged Wednesday from the Committee on Municipal Finance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Charges Waived In BRA Protest | 10/15/1965 | See Source »

...hardly makes a move without Famous, her tiny Yorkshire. Liz Taylor takes her Pekingese and three Yorkshires almost everywhere. Tenor Franco Corelli travels with a poodle. Actor Rex Harrison brings a basset hound, and Gypsy Rose Lee has even smuggled her Chinese hairless puppy onto an airplane in her bra. With all that precedent, it was hardly a surprise that Mr. and Mrs. Everyman got the idea too. The result is that now Rover is roving all over the world nearly as much as his owner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pets: You Can Take Them with You | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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