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Word: raisedabout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years after Kennedy's announcement, it looked like plans for the library were finally beginning to shape up. The Kennedy Library Corporation--a private body headed by Robert F. Kennedy '44--had raisedabout $18 million from 30 million contributors worldwide. The corporation, moreover, had selected a rising young New York architect by the name of I. M. Pei to design the building. The Cambridge City Council and Harvard had both welcomed Pei's plans; officials went happily about their business, waiting for construction to begin. But when the MBTA was forced to find an alternate location for its carbarn, nobody...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: The Library That Got Away | 10/12/1979 | See Source »

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