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...Morse Payne, a member of the design team, said that the TAC project, first announced last May, hinges on the legal and financial cooperation of the dozen property-owner whose buildings the walkway would adjoin. Speaking at the First Parish Church in Cambridge yesterday, he said that with some exceptions, the businessmen have as yet offered no firm commitment...
Payne said that each of the 12 property-owners had been approached individually, and that the Collaborative anticipates "no negative response." He said he hopes for a joint meeting of TAC representatives with all 12 "within a month...
...Harvard Square pedestrians, the proposed split-level walkway would stretch from the Yard to Mt. Auburn St., weaving in and around the buildings of the Square in such a way that "a whole new level of activity is created, undivided by streams of vehicular traffic," as described by the TAC proposal...
Broadway hails fair-to-middling work as genius so long as it succeeds. Along Shubert Alley, the ultimate critic is the box office, and Promises, Promises will doubtless satisfy that arbiter of taste. The show follows all the hallowed tac tics for promoting mediocrity into success. One does not gamble with $500,-000; one invests in the imitation of past successes. That means: Don't create -crib. Thus the plot line of Promises, Promises is derived from the Billy Wilder-I.A.L. Diamond film The Apartment, which was far sharper in lancing U.S. sexual hypocrisy, and the structure...
Albany taught him not to attack a political power structure unless he had the votes. Thereafter he aimed desultorily at intransigent merchants, more emphatically at the national heart. His horizon grew, and with it his clout. In 1963 he marched into Birmingham, tac tically prepared, and flayed that citadel of Dixie bigotry on national television. Public Safety Commissioner Theophilus ("Bull") Connor became the white villain for King's black heroes as they marched-clad in their Sunday clothes -to meet his truncheons, hoses and dogs. That world-arousing spectacle brought whites flocking to the civil rights movement...