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...affaire sycamore started in 1962, when the Massachusetts legislature passed a bill sponsored by Sen. Francis X. McCann (D-Cam.) instructing the Metropolitan District Commission to construct underpasses along Memorial Drive at River St., Boylston St., and Western Ave. The following spring, when the MDC began to take test borings, the somnolent Cambridge community finally became aware of the heinous goings on at Beason Hill. But the apparent falt accempll threw everyone into a dispairing hair-pulling tizzy. Although local residents resolved to oppose the project, it looked like a classic case of post felony barn-door locking...
Governor Peabody was contacted and he pledged his support, but only after the election, since he was courting the support of McCann and Rep. John I. Toomey (D-Cam.) then chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee an ardent underpass advocate...
...Coward-McCann...
Such generosity is supported by quick, mass-production reprint profits that the old established hard-cover houses cannot possibly match. Over the course of a year, Coward-McCann managed to peddle 250,000 hard-cover copies of Le Carre's Spy, at $4.50 a copy, for a very respectable gross of nearly $1,250,000. But Dell's 750 pocket edition sold 3,000,000 copies in just three weeks-for a gross...
...ORGY by Muriel Rukeyser. 213 pages. Coward-McCann...