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Dana S. Hanson, executive secretary of the Cambridge Civic Association, predicted last night that the Senate will again uphold Peabody's veto unless a substantial number of absentee Senators join the bill's supporters...
...chain reaction, neighborhood groups, civic associations and P.T.A.s began exploding-among them a Citizens' Advisory Committee for Cambridge, including Harvard President Nathan M. Pusey, Radcliffe President Mary I. Bunting, M.I.T. Chairman James R. Killian Jr. Public Relations Wizard Edward L. Bernays became so fired with the cause that he set up an Emergency Committee for the Preservation of Memorial Drive. Said Bernays: "This is a broad action to serve the public interest. The feeling of personal bereavement is terrific. Someone asked: 'Do you think we should chain ourselves to the trees?' There are people going...
...Much of the confusion in PR voting is caused by attempts to trick the system," Dana S. Hanson, executive secretary of the Cambridge Civic Association, suggested. He said the CCA, which favors PR, would take an active part in supporting it in the referendum...
...attacked Harvard, M.I.T., the Cambridge Civic Association, and the Cambridge League of Women Voters. Together they accused the universities of polluting the Charles, destroying the creche in the Cambridge Common in 1949, and having a policeman ticket their cars during a recent snowstorm...
...later estimated that nearly 500 local citizens, representing a host of civic organizations, would appear today at the State House hearing. About 300 people turned out last Friday when the MDC revealed plans for the underpasses, which would be built at River St., Western Ave., and Boylston...