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...Hyannis, Mass. Sheraton last Saturday, over 300 Republican activists took part in a little-known party caucus and Rep. Phillip M. Crane (R-Ill.) came out on top with 164 votes. The nearest challenger Ronald Reagan received 36 while George Bush took 27, John Connally 24 and Baker 16. Anne Crickshank, a state Republican committee member said Crane's appearance at the Hyannis caucus "definitely helped" him gain the overwhelming majority. Baker, unannounced at the time, did not attend the day-long event...
Kennedy came to Cambridge--for the last time--almost two years later. As fromer Cambridge Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 recalls, October 16, 1963, was an exciting day. Kennedy watched the first half of the Harvard-Columbia football game and then took a sightseeing tour with city and University officials. The president examined several potential plots for the library, especially favoring a site across the street from Eliot House, adjacent to where the Kennedy School of Government stands today...
...their business, waiting for construction to begin. But when the MBTA was forced to find an alternate location for its carbarn, nobody was selling. Almost a dozen neighborhoods rejected the agency's proposals, refusing to change local zoning laws. As each neighborhood turned the MBTA down, frustration levels rose, Crane says. By 1970, however, rounds of negotiations with Boston officials proved fruitful, a site was secured, and the state spent $53 million to transplant the yards...
...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...
...that "the citizens of Cambridge screwed themselves." Jonathan Moore, director of the Institute of Politics, hopes the library will be successful, adding that "any sense of disappointment of not having the whole cluster is well behind us." Some city officials, meanwhile, remain bitterly disappointed--officials who might agree with Crane's position: "October 20 is a day of mourning as far as Cambridge is concerned...