Word: site
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reached the basin, I asked everyone how they felt. Aside from the expected nervousness, I learned, not only the adrenaline was flowing. More than half the Kirkland crew needed a restroom, and since Indian summer had solicited an audience of thousands, the River Charles was not an auspicious site...
Much as they hate to say it, a lot of people in Cambridge are once again fighting the battle over the John F. Kennedy Library. The project slated to be built in the 4.2 acre-site adjacent to the Kennedy School of Government--a $60 million residential/retail complex--is different, the issues are much the same...
Argeros says the site should be developed according to a program that will not cause additional traffic. "It's tough now," he says, adding that "if access to that place is going to be through Harvard Square, it's going to be hard to walk...
...Kennedys began to plan and raise funds for the $12 million library, which is to be donated to the Government and operated by the National Archives, within a year after the 1963 assassination. Their chosen site was on the campus of Harvard University. But the start of construction was delayed as Cambridge residents objected, fearful that library tourists would create more traffic snarls around already congested Harvard Square...
...university then proposed splitting the library into two parts-a Harvard research collection and a museum and tourist center elsewhere. Meanwhile, UMass offered the scenic harbor site. One drawback: it had once been used as a garbage dump. There was talk as well of more rural settings. But Widow Jacqueline argued that Jack was a man of the city, not the country, and that the library should be near the sea, which he loved. Finally, Ted Kennedy announced to a meeting of the library's board: "If Jackie wants her husband's presidential library in Dorchester, it will...