Word: riverbanks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bernays, organizer of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive, claimed that the decision "does not deal with fundamental issues at all." The real question involved, he said, is not a matter of saving a few feet or a few trees, but rather: "Shall access to the riverbank be maintained for Cantabridgians, shall play and recreation areas be preserved, will the present planting of trees be preserved or will a barrier be created between the residents of Cambridge and their waterfront...
...summer dust. In one coach, heaped with red roses, jasmine and white lotus blooms, stood a large silver-and-copper urn holding Nehru's ashes.*Reaching Allahabad, Nehru's home town, late that night, the urn was carried in procession through the predawn coolness to the riverbank and loaded aboard a white-painted amphibious "duck." The boat moved out to a spot where the muddy brown current of the sacred Ganges is joined by the green water of the Jumna River. Airplanes circled overhead, and one dived down to shower rose petals. Small craft crowded close as Nehru...
...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...