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...board of directors, puts it, "We hope Harvard can put together a good package for the board meeting. Harvard has been doing everything it can, there hasn't been any criticism of Harvard at the directors' meeting." Black confesses to know little about the Columbia Point site or the Charlestown-Cambridge split package and says he defers to those who do most of the work, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D.-Mass.) and Smith, president of the corporation...
...there's a snag that will turn even the most inveterate Harvard supporters on the board against the split site proposal, it's probably in the Charlestown Navy Yard. Although one of the assistants to library architect I.M. Pei says that Building 36 is "an excellent site" with exciting shore-line possibilities, it is difficult to camouflage the building's and the Yard's most obvious flaws. Just the massive overhaul that is necessary to make Charlestown workable makes Harvard's trump card the lowest of its suit...
...that's an obstacle that Arthur M. Schlesinger '38, one of the corporation's most active members, is worried about most: whether Harvard could ever do enough to make the Charlestown site workable. Schlesinger says he feels that the archives could remain in Cambridge if Harvard would show that it's willing to put out to keep them there. "If Harvard were to show serious intent for putting something together," he says, "there would be a strong chance of the board's accepting it." But Schlesinger adds, "It's not clear to me that Harvard has done that...
...avoid giving Boston's schools the appearance of armed camps, uniformed police are being stationed inside South Boston High School, at least at first. Plainclothesmen are assigned to patrol the corridors there, at Charlestown High and several other schools (see map). In addition, Boston's school administration has bought 15 weapons detectors−similar to those used in airports−which were placed inside high schools to prevent students from carrying knives, chains and guns to class. Students are being issued identification cards at Southie and several other schools where trouble is expected...
Boston's stubborn resistance to busing is largely based in Irish-Catholic working-class neighborhoods such as South Boston and Charlestown, where whites want little to do with what they perceive as the alien and threatening culture of inner-city blacks. Says Maurice Gillen, a meter reader for Boston Edison and a community leader...