Word: nantucket
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerful figure who agrees with Mrs. Simon (he reviewed her book in the New York Times) is Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who has drafted a controversial bill that would turn the Vineyard, plus neighboring Nantucket and the outlying Elizabeth Islands, into the Nantucket Sound Islands Trust. Kennedy's bill would divide the islands into three kinds of development zones: virtually untouchable "forever wild" areas, "scenic preservation" lands where building would be strongly controlled, and less severely limited "town planned" regions. All would be administered by a trust under federal supervision...
...bill proposes limited access to Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. "If you spent money to preserve the land and didn't restrict access, the money would be wasted," Gifford said...
...Federal land use bill sponsored by Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) would help alleviate soaring housing costs and ecological hazards on Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket, a former Kennedy legislative aid said at Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...Massachusetts' Twelfth Congressional District is a kind of political Wimbledon where the best two out of three sets mean a winner. Roughly one-third of the district-Cape Cod and the Nantucket Sound islands-is Yankee Republican. Another third-the depressed onetime whaling capital of New Bedford-is ethnically Democratic. The South Boston suburbs stretching from Weymouth to Plymouth are fiercely independent; the candidate who can conquer them while holding his own bloc takes everything...
...group took off in two cars. Betty Santos and Jeff Lavares carried the signs in one while Studds. Hale, and Bill Guild drove in the other. It was perfect ethnic balance: two Portuguese from New Bedford and two Wasps one from Nantucket one from Hingham...