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...Neighborhood Nine Association (NNA), established in 1953 but inactive since 1967, was resurrected this summer in response to community concern over the extension of the Harvard MBTA line and the renovation of the Cambridge Common...
Mitropoulos favors a graduated income tax and the use of the state's highway fund to improve the MBTA. He would not support a bill to tax university property because he thinks too many schools would be hurt tadiy by it. He would urge the state to take over the cost of County government, which cost Cambridge almost two and one-half million dollars last year...
...Extension of the MBTA subway line out to Fresh Pond or another point near the Alewife Brook Parkway. Traffic studies--largely complete--show that most Mass Ave traffic has at least one endpoint in Cambridge, making extended rapid transit feasible...
Contours of the Kennedy Center are somewhat more cloudy. About two acres of the 11-acre site will be given to Harvard for the Kennedy School of Government. A large plaza, called Commonwealth Plaza in appreciation of Massachusetts's grant of the MBTA land, will extend over much of the area. Open all parking for at least 600 cars, and more probably 1000, will be provided by the Library. The ceremonial entrance to the Center will stand at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston...
According to Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. In May, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...