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...this country, local governments have asserted their right to erect zoning laws to shield residential areas from the effects of rapid large-scale development. While the area in question has always been used for some type of industry, there is no question that whatever MIT builds on the site, and whatever is built in additional areas of Cambridgeport's industrial district will critically affect those living in the neighborhood...
...spokesmen have said that the university has no set plans for the area, but they have clearly stated that the university is developing the site strictly as an investment, and will not use any of the property for university related activities...
...university has not denied, however, that it is interested in having research and consulting firms locate on the site Under current market conditions, such office uses would bring the highest return on MIT's investment...
...neighborhood petition, like its previous zoning efforts, calls for MIT to provide space on the site for manufacturing, low in come housing, and a public park. Some office use would be allowed...
...columnists consume much of its news hole, normal reportorial standards are more than occasionally ignored. Things began to get better during the 1980-82 tenure of Martin Kent, one of some 20 editors who have moved through the revolving door since Founder William Wilkerson opened the paper on the site of his former haberdashery in 1930. Says a onetime staffer: "Until Kent came, they mostly took press releases and perhaps pencil-edited them a little and slapped them onto the front page. They would not even call to check items out." Kent departed in June after a power struggle with...