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Demonstrators in Boston will gather in Copley Square at noon and march to the Boston Common bandstand where the main rally will begin at about...
...demonstrators had arrived at the Armory at 7 p.m. after marching from several locations. The bulk of the marchers left a Copley Square rally at 6:20 p.m. and surged up Commonwealth Ave. behind a small police escort...
...Copley Square rally, about 3000 people gathered to hear speeches by Boston University professor Howard Zinn and antiwar activist David Dellinger...
...rhomboid-shaped, mirror-walled building, it rises 60 stories from a site on Copley Square and looms over the elegant, residential Back Bay district. As soon as the project was announced in 1967, local architects attacked it as a disfiguration of the whole area. The building's size-1.6 million sq. ft. of office space-seemed sure to destroy the charm and intimate scale of Copley Square, formed mainly by Charles McKim's stately, neo-Renaissance Public Library and H.H. Richardson's Romanesque Trinity Church. Boston officials urged Hancock to reconsider its plans, but the company threatened...
...ironies of the controversy is that the Hancock Building is great architecture-not only handsome but also respectfully mirroring its neighbors and enlivening Copley Square. Indeed, its architect, Harry Cobb of I.M. Pei & Partners, studied the square's history and decided that it was never a secluded enclave of culture, as commonly thought, but rather the meeting place of city-shaping forces. These include the six-lane Massachusetts Turnpike behind the square and a cluster of tall buildings near its uptown and downtown flanks. The Hancock Building thus had to be a high-rise to fit into, and escape...