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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps more people than at any time since the Revolution took a stand on an embattled segment of Cambridge Common yesterday morning to protest the proposed sale of the site to area promoter John Briston Sullivan for an office building on stilts...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Residents, Students Assemble on Common To Hear Speeches Protesting Sale of Land As Site for Cambridge Building on Stilts | 2/27/1961 | See Source »

James Vorenberg '49, president of the CCA, told the cold, damp crowd that the Senate bill (S. 447) to authorize the sale was "private interest legislation of the worst sort." The Senate is expected to take a final vote on the matter today...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Residents, Students Assemble on Common To Hear Speeches Protesting Sale of Land As Site for Cambridge Building on Stilts | 2/27/1961 | See Source »

...Legislature must pass on proposed sale of all Massachusetts land formerly used as park land or significant for its historic value...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Senate Approves Land For Building-on-Stilts | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...letter made public yesterday, the Cambridge Civic Association strenuously urged opposition to "the sale of any part of Cambridge Common for private profit." Signatures included those of President Pusey, President Bunting, and James R. Killian, chairman of the M.I.T. Corporation...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Senate Approves Land For Building-on-Stilts | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...group listed the following specific objections: the MTA has failed to approve the project as one that would improve the bus situation in the Square; the sale would introduce "commercial development" into one of America's great historical areas; it would add only 200 parking spaces and aggravate the "already intolerable" traffic and parking problem...

Author: By Peter S. Britell, | Title: Senate Approves Land For Building-on-Stilts | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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