Word: mccann
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Charging that several leading opponents of the Memorial Drive underpasses are attempting to "mutilate my family reputation," State Senator Francis X. McCann (D.-Cambridge) yesterday revived one of the underlying issues of the Memorial Drive controversy: the political split between the University-oriented segments of Cambridge and the rest of the City...
...McCann, who sponsored the 1962 legislation authorizing the Metropolitan District Commission to build the underpasses, angrily declared that "I resent--and resent strongly--any individual alluding that I have collusion with a contractor...
Despite these new elements, the votes on the underpass bills will probably be very close and their chances for success seem to depend largely upon how hard two Cambridge legislators--Rep. John J. Toomey and State Senator Francis X. McCann--continue their support of the underpasses...
...HOUSE ON THE SOUND by Kathrin Perutz. 213 pages. Coward-McCann...
...Siegfried Wichmann. (Crown; $15) is a comprehensive, pleasantly illustrated history of chess pieces. For those who like social history, Mirror of Fashion by Margarete Braun-Ronsdorf (McGraw-Hill; $26.50) is a copious survey of European costume from the French Revolution to 1929, while Leather Armchairs by Charles Graves (Coward-McCann; $7.95) is an anecdote-laden, fascinating-in-spite-of-itself account of all the major London clubs. What may well prove to be both the best-illustrated and best-written of the Kennedy memorial books is The Kennedy Years (Viking; $16.50), a massively complete compilation of photographs with equally compendious...