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...city of Cambridge should have the first chance to purchase any land which the Metropolitan Transit Authority offers to sell, Mayor Thomas M.McNamara asserted yesterday...
Referring to the bid by the University to pay $1 million over the market value to buy the MTA lots on the Charles River, McNamara stated, "Cambridge is entitled to first priority on land like that, on which city loses a lot of taxes." The mayor said that the city would "make every effort" to buy the MTA land, if the Transit Authority chose to sell...
McNamara said that he hopes to meet with officials from the University and the Massachusetts institute of technology in the near future to discuss plans for expansion of the two institutions and to arrive at an agreement. The mayor claimed that slum areas often surround a collage area because no one knows where the collage will build next. McNamara indicated that in a meeting with University officials, he had sought an understanding of exactly where and how it plans to expand. The offer to buy the MTA land "brought the issue to a head," McNamara said...
West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, who regards much of the underground activities as "grownups playing cowboy and Indian." wants the Berlin senate to examine how to get "rid of certain undesirable activities in the twilight zone of political propaganda." The spook business is causing dissatisfaction in East Germany, too, but of a different sort. Dombrowski's boss, Major General Karl Linke, has reportedly been given the boot for letting Dombrowski get away...
...headlines are most noticeable in Monday morning newspapers after Sunday's panel interview shows. Last Sunday U.S. TViewers saw and heard West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt, Argentina's President Arturo Frondizi and New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges. Last week an estimated 15 million watched Soviet First Deputy Premier Mikoyan. What each of these men said on TV made stories for Monday's papers...