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They met with James R. Killian, chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, and asked him to support an alternate route to the Brookline-Elm St. alignment--a path that would cut through Central Square and displace between 3000 and 5000 people. After talking with Killian for more than two hours, they came away disappointed and convinced that the Institute preferred Brookline-Elm to other possibilities...
...Inner Belt's opponents were unable to budge Killian. According to reliable sources, Killian was skeptical about the number of jobs the Portland- Albany route would take--its supporters have said it would take only 2300 jobs, the same number that the Brookline Elm would claim, and displace 150 families as opposed to the Brookline...
...electronics complex is located almost adjacent to M.I.T., and many local observers have termed the laboratory "a third Tech campus." They single out James R. Killian, chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation, as one of the chief moving forces behind bringing NASA to Kendall Square...
...foregetting these quibbles and accepting the 28-acre claim, Killian's next statement seemed even more untenable. "We don't know where we could find that land," he said. Doesn't M.I.T. have some property in Easy Cambridge? Couldn't any of the facilities be moved outside of Cambridge? And finally, the biggest question of them all: what about the 25 acres of open athletic fields conveniently adjacent to the main campus...
...After stressing M.I.T.'s importance as a place for defense and space research, Killian came right back to say that he was "skeptical" about receiving large amounts of federal aid to help with possible relocation. "The government's not going to bail us out," he said quickly and dropped the subject. The figure of $80 million damage stood and the clear impression left for the press--correct or not--was that it would have to be paid almost entirely by M.I.T...