Word: rep
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sponsor of the bill- Rep. Timothy W. Hickey (D-Cambridge)- even suggested that perhaps it didn't go far enough. Instead of merely taking over Harvard Stadium, he said, perhaps the legislature should reassert the control it had 300 years ago over the entire University. "Harvard was in effect our first state or public university, and it should now open its arms to the Commonwealth," he said...
Only three persons- two legislators and one spectator- spoke in opposition to the bill. Rep. Harrison Chadwick (R-Winchester) argued that the blame for letting the Patriots leave Boston would rest not with Harvard, but with the legislature itself, which has killed numerous bills to build a new stadium because of difficulties with arranging its financing...
Ralph Nader, Rep. Allard K. Lowenstoin (D.N.Y.), and William Lear, designer of the Lear jet and a steam- engine car faster than commercialized gasoline- powered cars, have not yet replied to their invitations...
...State Rep. John Backman, one of the heads of the two-year study said the draft recommends that the laws be changed "in proportion to a drugs danger to the person and society." Backman said, "Anyone who is a drug-dependent person should be treated by the Mental Health Department... not put in jail...