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...economic niche that would shelter his descendants from segregation. He started a funeral home and later founded the Protective Industrial Insurance Co. of Alabama. In 1967 it put up the money with which the Acamar Realty and Insurance Agency-of which Davis is part owner-bought the site for Briarmont. The profits from developing it and other business deals, plus the growing income from his law practice (more than $40,000 last year), could some day make Davis a millionaire...
Those in favor of construction of the library on the MBTA site include the Kennedys, a majority of the city council, the General Services Administration, labor and veterans groups, and, implicitly, Harvard University...
...University's interests are irretrievably entangled in the local controversy over the library. As Donald C. Moulton, assistant to the vice president for community affairs, said last week if the Kennedy Library is not built on the MBTA yard site, the university will "be put back to ground zero" in planning construction of its new building...
...work scaling down the project and last week released a new design which eliminated an 85-foot-high glass pyramid and two 350-seat auditoriums. Pei also redesigned the complex in brick, to blend in with the colonial motifs of the Harvard Houses which are across from the site...
Although Pei has not drawn up a design for the building, he and Harvard officials have agreed upon an outline which calls for the construction of a six-story brick building in the northeast corner of the site. The structure will have a narrow rectangular shape, measuring 380 by 50 feet and will contain 160,000 sq. feet of floor space...