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...That," said McCann, "is an old chestnut. They're raised all kinds of hell but none of them has even seen the plans...
Amid the furor, Sen. Francis X. McCann (D-Cambridge), sponsor of the bill which authorized the construction, lashed out at the newly-formed Citizens' Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive: "Who created them to be the sole judge of what's good and bad for Cambridge?" He suggested that underlying the whole Memorial Drive controversy was an attempt to ruin him politically...
...McCann's bill mentioned only the construction of underpasses and overpasses on the drive. But Edward L. Bernays, organizer of the Citizens' Emergency Committee, said it was generally believed that the MDC will stagger construction of the underpasses to cushion public resentment and ultimately announce that the entire drive will be widened and made into an expressway, necessitating the destruction of the sycamore trees which line...
...McCann questioned why no hue and cry was raised when the legislature authorized the construction 20 months ago. The issue lay dormant until last fall. At a meeting of Organization Ten, a Cambridge civic group, Benjamin Fink, chief engineer of the MDC, assured the 400 members present that there was nothing to worry about. After Fink spoke, Bernays--a new resident of the city and the country's leading public relations man--denounced the MDC representative as "a stooge" and urged an aggressive attack to combat the building of the underpasses. At this meeting were laid the seeds...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD by John le Carré. 256 pages. Coward-McCann...