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...photographs of Robert F. Kennedy in California were taken by Didi Pei '68, who in his junior year was photo chairman of the Harvard Year-book, and who recently was working as a Kennedy campaign staff photographer in California. Some of the pictures were taken on the day Kennedy was shot. in America's procrustean political mechanisms. While Kennedy assured such blocs he would represent them, he also tried to give them a sense that their own participation, wholly apart from his own future, would in time yield results. The upshot of his pitch was a multiple victory: alienated blacks...
...Mattapan Plan will survive its State House opposition and be enacted. But the uncertainty remains, and construction may be held up for months before the Library gives architect I. M. Pei the go-ahead. Meanwhile, all the pudgy fingered Milton Mothers are doing a fine job of teaching Harvard and the Kennedys a little lesson in Boston politics...
...visualize even now in its final form, because the red-brick plaza which is the cement which holds the whole project together isn't finished yet. With pedestrian underpasses going through, a plaza with trees, walks, benches, etc., one will be able to see clearly the cencept which I.M. Pei developed for the Government Center. It will provide some continuity between Beacon Hill--the State House and the red-brick sidewalks -- down through Scollay Square, to Dock Square, and ultimately to the waterfront which is also to be renewed...
Boston has been braver. Five years ago it embarked on a project to demolish its seamy Scollay Square area and replace it with a 60-acre, twelve-building Government Center. The focus of the whole complex, according to the site plan drawn up by I. M. Pei & Associates, was to be a brand new city hall. Determined to have a stirring design, Boston held a nationwide architecture competition*that attracted 256 entrants, and the city appropriated $20 million for the building in advance...
...Pei, architect for the Library, said last May that the financial problem could become critical. "Unless we can find more money, we'll have to build less," Pei said at the time...