Word: councilor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who accompanied Kennedy, says the president clearly preferred the 12-acre site, but thought that it might cost too much. And when University officials told the president that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which had used the site for more than half a century for its repair and storage yards--wasn't about to give up the land, Kennedy changed his mind. He settled for a site almost directly across the Charles from Winthrop House, where he had lived as an undergraduate...
...hand was a group of citizens who said the new museum would destroy the Square, flooding it with hordes of tourists each day. Even now, representatives of this group--then loosely formed into the Committee to Protect the Environment (COPE)--defend their actions. City Councilor Francis H. Duehay, who says the museum would have brought between 40 and 60 tour buses into the Square every day, was one of these opponents. "Three million additional visitors a year was really an impossible burden for Harvard Square," he says...
...other hand was a more diffuse group of people who felt Harvard Square was the only proper site for the library complex--and that opponents harbored elitist feelings. Councilor Sullivan says opponents "didn't want the library. Period." Crane agrees, saying that even though Pei revised his plans twice to accommodate residents' fears--and appeared at public meetings on the proposal--"a very small handful of well-organized people put the harpoon into the library...
...City Council voted to interpret councilor Lawrence Frisoli's "present" vote as affirmative, giving the bill the seven votes it needed to pass...
Cambridge officials said yesterday they plan to appeal the ruling. "We will pursue this matter until we are satisfied," councilor Mary Ellen Preusser said...