Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Basically, PR does this by requiring a relatively small number of votes for election, and by assuring that a minority group's votes will be channeled toward its strongest candidates...
...approved by Afro earlier this month to Harvey Brooks, dean of Engineering and Applied Physics and chairman of the Faculty subcommittee. Bond also told Brooks that Afro would like to send representatives to a subcommittee meeting in order to present Afro's anti-Project petition and to explain the group's opposition to the Project...
Mobs of people, traffic, strain on City services-those were some of the objections the group voiced to the Shady Hill plans. But perhaps the underlying cause of discontent was the feeling that 300 units of housing simply wouldn't fit, that a development of this size would ruin what some called the aesthetic and historical character of the neighborhood. As Jones put it, to visualize the size of the project, "you would have to picture two buildings the size of William James Hall surrounded by smaller buildings...
...small group of residents, mostly of the portion of Somerville lying adjacent to Shady Hill, would like the entire area preserved as a park. "This is the last chance to get some kind of decency around here. You ought to see the poor parks we have in Somerville," says Mrs. Joan Sullivan, leader of this group...
...Committee for North Harvard, a community group which is sponsoring the construction of a 212-unit housing project on the Allston site, has said that the buildings "must get into the ground by November 1," if the project is to reach completion. After November 1, the Vappi Construction Company will not undertake the job for the funds presently available...