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...been widely reported that developer John Briston Sullivan is against designation of the Common as a historic district because he still hopes to construct an office building on stilts near the Square. Any such building might not be allowed in a historic district...
Astronaut Scott Carpenter held the College spell-bound for the better part of an hour early in examination period: about the same time John Briston Sullivan, a local speculator-promoter-businessman, produced a different kind of uneasiness by threatening to sink a large, ugly, barge in the middle of the Charles River Basin The move would have been part of Sullivan's grand strategy against a group of Boston businessmen in the struggle for riverfront land control; as Cambridge yachtsmen watched aghast, Sullivan turned to other, less dramatic tactics and decided not to sink the barge after all. Sullivan...
...John Briston Sullivan, a Cambridge real estate developer, has removed his 131-foot long barge from the Charles River...
...John Briston Sullivan, the Cambridge real estate developer who threatened the University last year with his building-on-stilts proposal, is planning to sink a tremendous, ugly barge in the Charles River just below M.I.T...
...University does oppose the creation of a historic district, however, many people in Cambridge will charge Harvard with opportunism because of its role in the John Briston Sullivan affair last spring...