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Children poured into the playground and found two jet planes, a tank and three trolleys, an 1870 locomotive, a Coast Guard tug, an amphibious craft, a fire engine, a Marine obstacle course and a soapbox racing track. There were some old-fashioned things too-basketball courts, swings and seesaws...
...emphasized, Harvard would maintain the play area until the city replaced it with another playground in the neighborhood...
...University offered to improve the Corporal Burns playground to the tune of $200,000 yesterday, but local residents were up in arms at the first whisper that the City might sell outright the acre-and-a-half area to Harvard...
Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the president for civic affairs, told a special City Council subcommittee that the University would build a small field house on the playground to replace the structure now there, and also pay fees to a landscape architect to redesign the area...
...think it is unlikely that the city will sell, however," Whitlock continued. If it does, the money will probably be used to build a new Houghton Grammer School with a gym and enlarged playground for the area. Since the state would pay 40% of the prospective $2.4 million cost, Cambridge would have to pay very little, Whitlock explained...