Word: riverbank
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...February or March of 1965, at River St., Western Ave., and Bolyston St. are merely first steps to the widening of Memorial Drive from a two-lane highway to a four-lane expressway. They further contend that the underpasses--and the changes that will follow--will destroy the Charles riverbank as a useful and irreplaceable recreational area...
...demonstrate Cambridge's support of this position, anti-underpass leaders hope to attract as many people as possible to the Charles riverbank Sunday, June...
Bernays's appeal to the nation's governors is but a small chapter in his year-long battle against the underpasses. At one point, he asked Secretary of the interior Stewart L. Udall to name Memorial Drive and the Charles riverbank a "national historic site...
...plans for the Kennedy library have already gone far beyond the small, quiet, scholarly haven that Jack Kennedy envisioned in his lifetime. To that project, Harvard in 1963 granted two acres of its Charles Riverbank property. Now there are plans to make the library an institution in the study of contemporary political science, with a big-name, not-necessarily-Harvard director. Some 200 tape-recorded interviews have been conducted with the great and the near great to create an "oral history" of the Kennedy years. So far, about the only holdout is former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who explains...
Then suddenly and, as far as anyone can tell, on their own initiative, 10,000 villagers-all except the sick, the aged and the very young children-turned out for 27 straight days and dug a ten-mile ditch around the elongated village. The moat begins at the riverbank, marches through rice fields and coconut groves, curls around the spurs of two foothills, across a marshy neck of the sea, and returns again to the riverbank. With their hefty hoes, the villagers dug 10 ft. down and 20 ft. wide. The earth, lifted up in round bamboo baskets, became...