Word: sites
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...insisted that her husband wanted a memorial at the MBTA subway yards in Harvard Square, one thing was always certain: something--either a full-blown memorial with everything from cinemas to rocking chairs or a quaint brick library, accessible and interesting only to scholars, would be built on the site...
There were scattered protests; residents adjoining the site began to complain in the early '70s about architect I.M. Pei's colossal architectural mock-ups and the potential pollution spawned by tourists flocking to Cambridge to gawk at the museum's coconuts, busts and other memorabilia...
...first yanked the museum portion of the library out of the yards while the second, dropped less than a month ago, threatened to move the whole complex including the archives out of Harvard Square unless someone comes up with a separate site for the museum acceptable to the board of directors...
What happened? What makes a corporation, studded with the power of the Kennedy's and blessed with funds originally assessed at millions of dollars in private donations, want to pull out of a site fought over dearly and dreamed of for years...
Kennedy officials weren't especially happy with Harvard's role either. The corporation apparently felt that Harvard did not work hard enough to pacify the diversified communities surrounding the site, leaving the library corporation to do all the dirty work...