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...Kennedy Corporation, a non-profit development firm, plans to erect a $27-million memorial library and museum on the northeast corner of the 12.2 acre MBTA yards across from Eliot House and will sell Harvard nearly half its land for construction of the University building...
...like Charlie's Kitchen, under the same management and also frequented mostly by Cambridge residents. Charlie's Kitchen, right across from the MBTA yard, serves some of the finest bar food in Cambridge. Its prices are good, the service is fine, and it somehow manages to be quiet while still maintaining the essential equipment of any serious bar--a television and a juke box. The decoration of the bar consists basically of pictures of John F. Kennedy while he was at Harvard, and they illustrate perfectly the status of the bar in Cambridge--it takes the patronage of Harvard students...
...traffic. Perhaps the final blow to any possible community-library truce came in February when the General Services Administration hired C.E. Maguire Inc. to conduct the $184,000 consulting job which is supposed to finally evaluate the true merits of the library's placement on the 12-acre MBTA site...
Furthermore, the city must ask itself if it can afford to go along with a plan that has been so mismanaged from the start. Granted, the Kennedy people ran into unforeseeable troubles with the MBTA, and only now are the subway cars ready to move off the site, but the planners clearly ignored the very practical political and environmental issues of construction...
...Kennedy Library has become simply boring. The City Council and the Library Corporation had better decide what they want--most likely a compromise of just a library without the tourist-generating museum--and pull us out of the 12-year miasma before August 1 when the MBTA vacates the land...