Word: siting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fromer Cambridge Mayor Edward A. Crane '35 recalls, October 16, 1963, was an exciting day. Kennedy watched the first half of the Harvard-Columbia football game and then took a sightseeing tour with city and University officials. The president examined several potential plots for the library, especially favoring a site across the street from Eliot House, adjacent to where the Kennedy School of Government stands today...
City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who accompanied Kennedy, says the president clearly preferred the 12-acre site, but thought that it might cost too much. And when University officials told the president that the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)--which had used the site for more than half a century for its repair and storage yards--wasn't about to give up the land, Kennedy changed his mind. He settled for a site almost directly across the Charles from Winthrop House, where he had lived as an undergraduate...
...spokesman Richard Cunningham said yesterday federal agencies must convince Ray to reopen the Hanford site--the only disposal area in the country currently accepting low-level wastes...
Shapiro said if the site remains closed, research 'won't come to a dead halt," but added that radioactive materials are essential to many experiments and hospital tests...
...idea of establishing a dumping site in Cambridge is absurd," Sullivan said, adding "You don't do that in the third most densely populated city in the country...