Word: newmans
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...final effort by Rep. Mary Newman of Cambridge to kill the petition by referring it to the next annual session of the Legislature failed by a decisive 75-127 vote...
...requesting postponement of the bill, Mrs. Newman stressed that the Legislature is "establishing a dangerous precedent in allowing the sale of common lands when the public necessity is not involved." She also said the proposed building on stilts will damage an area of great historical interest and "will worsen an already terrible traffic situation...
...Volpe signs the bill, it will go to the Cambridge City Council, which must make a final decision on the sale of the land in front of Littaner Center. Five of the nine members of the Council have expressed approval of the sale, but Mrs. Newman believes the pressure of public opinion may force the Council "to allow the situation to cool off" for a few months before taking action...
...Newman proposed the amendment to the bill, H. 477, only after the Toomey-Spartichino forces defeated her in an attempt to postpone the bill to the next session of the Legislature. She defended the amendment on the grounds that, "If home rule is what we desire at this time, the people of Cambridge should have the final...
Joining with Mrs. Newman was Rep. Freyda Koplow of Brookline, who opposed the "sale of public park land for private purposes." Professional people have declared the bill unsound and the MTA has taken no stand on the issue, Mrs. Koplow maintained. "We should not sell the land for the benefit of John Briston 'Stilts' Sullivan...