Word: cranes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were in a growth era then," Crane says--private growth, and a city's self-sufficiency were the city's primary goals. Now, he says, Cambridge is stagnating, and its council spends more time trying to get federal funds than attempting to build from within. "It's a Santa Claus-type government now," he says, "and nobody is going to object to getting federal funds...
...claims of those who want to stop unrestrained development--downzone, and begin planning for people--Crane calls them all "ENE's"--ecologists and environmentalists--who prefer to stop rather than start things in Cambridge. "To me accusations of progress [under my administration] without planning are just wordy rhetoric. Any course of action is open for criticism in Cambridge nowadays." He claims that his administration "certainly endorsed planning." Witness the planning office, he says, which jumped from a $15 appropriation for postage stamps in 1938 to $186,000 by 1971. "Unrestrained development? There are not six square miles [the size...
Instead of fighting for neighborhood preservation, Crane prefers to show what can happen when neighborhood preservers don't halt progress. He claims credit for Tech Square--"a tax payer"--the new Draper Labs, and a slew of other offices that are making money for Cambridge every...
...nothing makes Crane seethe more than when the discussion turns to the Kennedy Library. Here is a project that makes him wish he was back on the council. "That JFK Library is a real ripoff. We spent over $50 million to make that site available for the library. And then the ENEs came in overnight. They started throwing their spears after we got the green light. They were well-represented, and well financed...
...Crane looks upon those who opposed the library with disgust. He calls them a small, unrepresentative minority, who ramrodded their position through. Worse, to Crane, is that the opposition cares little for the memory of John F. Kennedy '40. He considers it a family insult, and he considers himself a close friend of that family...