Word: marshlands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what the crowds had come to witness. Jules Verne had the vision more than a century ago. When Western man finally launched himself into space, he foresaw, it would be from Florida's midsection. Men with less foresight saw only a forbidding stretch of sand, scrub and fetid marshland that was bypassed even during the land boom of the 1920s. In the 1950s, recalls Space Reporter Al Volker of the Miami News, the space program was so hushed up that the only way to find out that a shot had taken place was to have a Cocoa Beach bartender...
...them is to think big, and Co-Op City's sponsor-the United Housing Foundation, a nonprofit group organized by 40 labor unions-conceived the $294 million project on a monumental scale. When it is completed in 1971, Co-Op City will cover 300 acres of filled marshland, with 35 apartment towers, from 24 to 33 stories in height, eight block-square parking garages, six schools, several shopping centers, 236 townhouses, and assorted service buildings-an instant city...
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...second site, on a marshland between Milton and Dorchester, was proposed last December by Governor Volpe. But Milton selectmen and Dorchester state legislators raised an outcry against it, and Volpe dropped the issue...
...neighborhood. Milton town officials contend that the yards would fill in valuable and scenic wildlife refuge and, worse, connect Milton by land with Dorchester. Milton residents, mainly of middle and upper incomes, fear being closely tied to poorer areas in Boston. These objections will make the fight over the marshland an emotional one. But the Governor himself has said that he has made a moral commitment to the Library. Now he has made a legislative commitment. He must carry it through...