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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...penchant for record keeping is not limited to the stuff of archives: the library also houses an exact replica of the Oval Office, complete with the three-set television console, and bronze-backed display cases containing the Johnson daughters' wedding dresses. Lady Bird Johnson, who chose the library site, and has been frequently seen directing its construction over the past five years, is behind some of the more personal touches. Says she: "Visitors want to sniff the presidency, to see firsthand the real belongings that were part of the center of power...
...area between Bow Street and Plympton Street will soon be the site of a 12-store shopping arcade to be called "The Garage." Construction of the arcade will begin as soon as real estate agent Robert W. Matthews obtains a lease from the Coop, which owns the property...
...grant, which was part of a $33.6 million award to the MBTA announced yesterday in Washington by Senator Edward W. Brooke (R Mass.), will provide around two-thirds of the funds needed for the construction of an MBTA train-storage and repair station on the site of the now-vacant Penn Central railyards on Dover St. in Boston...
...chief stumbling block in constructing the library is now money, according to Richard E. Barringer, assistant dean of the Kennedy School of Government. He said last night that since the site will be clear in a little over a year. "We'll put up whatever there's money for, starting a year from next June...
Barringer said that pre-construction testing of the site would begin this summer, "with firm intentions of beginning construction a year from next June." He said the main problem in actual construction would be seeing whether the wooden piles now in the railyard would provide sufficient support for the Library. If not, new piles would have to be driven...