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Accordingly, the MDC will also construct a pedestrian overpass near Weeks Bridge "to make the crossing of Memorial Drive safer," and also "beautify" the riverbank between River St. and Western...
Later Udall writes Bernays, "You are certainly to be congratulated on your energetic efforts to alert your community," but in another letter says he cannot declare the riverbank a national historic site...
...meet privately with Governor Endicott Peabody '40 to discuss the Memorial Drive situation. The Governor remains non-committal. Edward L. Bernays, the spirited 72-year old dean of public relations and a leader in the anti-underpass campaign, writes Secretary of the Interior Udall. Bernays asks that the Charles riverbank be declared a "national historic site" because of its recreational and historic value...
...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...