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...Sheldon Dietz '41, a Cambridge businessman, has submitted nominating papers for six directors. Four of them are professors at Harvard, and two at M.I.T. They are running against six Harvard officers nominated by the Coop's stockholders...
...Sheldon Dietz '41 paraded a long line of witnesses before the City Council yesterday and may have dealt a death blow to the plans of the Harvard Cooperative Society for a two-story glass bridge connecting its new $2 million annex and its main building...
Witnesses opposing the bridge--led by Dietz, a local property owner--said it would deprive the street of light and air. One witness claimed that the "large ominous bridge would seal the doom of Palmer St. . .give it the oppressive atmosphere of a wholesale district...like the garment district...
...Dietz asked readers of his ad to attend a public hearing today at which the City Council will decide whether or not to grant the Coop permission to build its bridge. A majority of the Massachusetts legislature and two-thirds of the City Council must give their assent before a private corporation can utilize the air rights above a municipally-owned street...
Stanley F. Teele, president of the Coop, replied to Dietz's charges in a three-page letter sent Friday to the nine City Councillors. Calling the bridge "absolutely essential" to plans for the annex, Teele said that the Coop "would have to reconsider the entire project" if the Council did not give its approval...