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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DECISION BY Kanavos Enterprises last Friday to proceed with foundation work for a 19-story Holiday Inn adjacent to the Kennedy Library site is but another example of the obstinance which has characterized most building projects in and around Harvard Square. For the past five years, the Square area has been drifting steadily away from the concept of community Local shopowners and businessmen have abandoned the Square in the face of skyrocketing rents and stepped-up insurance rates. In their stead have come more restauranteurs, ice cream vendors and bankers--all of whom cater to a transient population like that...
...BUILDING BOOM zeroes in on the Kennedy Library site. The history of the Library has been one of misunderstanding and a lack of cooperation. The selection of the site at the corner of Memorial Drive and Boylston St. is the root problem in an area already densely populated, plagued by terrible traffic access and almost non-existent parking facilities. Once this site was picked over more realistic ones outside Cambridge, myriad conflicts, easily foreseeable, arose. The foremost has been how to accommodate the Library's horde of visitors...
...radar system (most are now). In any case, if that radar was working properly, most U.S. planes would be picked up and monitored long before crossing the DMZ. Beginning in mid-December 1971, Hanoi "netted" this radar into the lock-on radar capability of each local SAM site, alerting the SAM crews when a U.S. craft was coming within range. Indeed, Lavelle told the Senators, he lost planes and crews on two occasions when, without the SAM using its own radar, which U.S. pilots could detect, the general system guided missiles to kills. That, argued Lavelle, constituted sufficient rationale...
...traffic trap. City Planning officials, in consultation with Center architect I.M. Pei, reached rough agreement in late July on the location of a major new road to connect Memorial Drive to Boylston Street. Designed to funnel cars from North, South, and West quadrants to the heart of the Library site, it will probably be recessed of built underground for several blocks...
Bowyer also announced last week that Cambridge had agreed to cooperate with the Kennedy Center in building an on-site parking garage. On the basis of traffic surveys studied over the summer, he said that new parking, facilities were urgently needed. "A good amount of the traffic in the Square is cruising for space," Bowyer commented. "And 50 per cent of the traffic, so far as we can tell, has a destination in Harvard Square." The Kennedy Center garage will harbor at least 600 cars...