Word: selectman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...George Bush has nothing to do with it. The population swells to around 30,000 in the summer, and 19,000 cars cross the narrow two-lane bridge into Dock Square each day in peak season. Gridlock comes with the Coppertone. "Ocean Avenue is already a zoo," concedes selectman Drew. Adds Tom Bradbury, whose family has been in town for generations: "The Bush factor changes the name on the souvenir, but the souvenirs were already here...
Some focus heroically on the bright side. "It's exciting," says Monroe Scharff, a Bush neighbor. "How often do you find a beautiful place that is ; also the summer residence of the President of the United States?" And selectman Joe Finn trumpets, "We've been in the London Times and the Hong Kong Daily News...
Weston's three town selectman will now appoint a special committee to study possible uses for the land. Harvard officials said they expect to close the deal with Weston by January
MATEP'S ENEMIES in Brookline and Mission Hill have used a variety of legal schemes to stalemate the plant since 1976. They have vivid interpretations of Weiss's recommendation. According to Brookline selectman Zvi Sesling, Weiss was saying that "Harvard can do something that nobody else can do--legally kill four people." According to Louis Horwitz, chairman of the seven-year-old Neighborhood Organizations Mobilized Against the Total Energy Plant (NOMATEP), "That's sick. I don't know of any country other than Nazi Germany that is able to put a price on human life." And according to Brookline lawyer...
...Dennis Selectman George W. Fallon says he hopes Studds will get voted out of office "because he's an ultra-liberal--his record is one of extreme liberalism," and also because he disagrees with his lifestyle and his activities...