Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crowd of about 100 neighbors and workers from the area looked on, the picket line of BRA opponents chantedslogans which included "Stay and fight Kevin White," and "Eisenstadt: Stop that Rat." When the police arrived at 9:45 a. m. the group spontaneously huddied at the two doors to the Redgate house and yelled "No evictions; stay and fight," at the approaching TPF officers. Captain Rachalski's warnings by bullhorn could not be heard over the chanting...
Since 1965 the number of families resisting evictions has been reduced to two by BRA relocation efforts. These two will probably lose their nine-year fight sometime today...
...situation was a difficult one. On one hand, the housing shortages were getting worse, yet on the other, neighbors would probably fight to the death-in the City Council, and perhaps even in the courts-against a proposal which would bring lowerincome Cambridge residents into the neighborhood around Shady Hill. Caught in the middle, Edward S. Gruson, Pusey's new assistant for Community Affairs, and other Harvard planning officials took the srinplest course: they split the difference between the 150 units Harvard was going to build and the 500 units the GSD asked, and began to develop plans...
...final decision on Shady Hill, however, rests with the Corporation. If neighbors are adamant in their refusal to accept more than 150 units, it is possible the Corporation might decide to compromise on numbers, rather than face the embarrassing prospect of having to fight against some of Harvard's more distinguished Faculty members when the Univer...
Nine Year Fight...