Word: callahan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...history of the Boston toll road-freeway controversy has been one of sudden compromise, of veiled threats, and of panic in the face of a clock that is running down. In the first stage it centered around newly-elected governor John A. Volpe, around William F. Callahan, chairman of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, and around the $200 million Prudential Center at Huntington Avenue and Boylston Street. In the second the principal actor was Mayor Donald L. Gibbs of Newton...
When Volpe took office, the Legislature had long before authorized blueprints for a toll road, financed by a Turnpike Authority bond issue, connecting Rte. 128 and downtown Boston via the tracks of the Boston and Albany Railroad. The Authority, i.e., Callahan (who controls the bond issue), had already procured an option on the right of way. Although this plan and contracts connected with it had been gathering dust for close to five years, $20 million worth of work had gone forward on the Prudential Center, under which the expressway was expected to pass...
...CALLAHAN Peekskill...
George Bolton and Ed O'Callahan as Cerebro and Soma make believably solid citizens, and they can say absurd things without blinking an eyelash, which is what the play requires. Fred Morehouse and Endo seemed overly conscious of himself as an actor last night, where the apparent consciousness of the others was of their stage personages, rather than their off-stage personalities. Randy Echols' Visionary has little to do (which is very difficult for an actor to do well) and Echols is fine at it. He has a touching moment of pathos and beauty at the end of the play...
...Trolley. In Jacksonville, Thomas H. Callahan explained to Judge John Santora that he was really waiting for a streetcar when the cops picked him up for vagrancy, got ten days in the clink anyway because there has not been a streetcar in town for 20 years...