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...explicit in his suggestions as to what Bellotti should propose. As a result of the meeting, the NAACP seems to have decided that it may be able to put more pressure on Volpe as a result of the expected strong civil rights statement by his opponent. Thus in its telegram to the Republican, the Association has asked for a statement on extremism as well as a restatement of his civil rights position...
...official statement came in response to a telegram sent Monday to Volpe and his Democratic opponent, Lieutenant Governor Francis X. Bellotti, by Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot, co-chairmen of the Citizens Emergency Committee to Save Memorial Drive. The message reminded the candidates of the great expense involved in constructing the underpasses and of the irreplaceable recreation playgrounds their construction would destroy. It also urged that they support legislation to block their construction...
...appeal, which came in a telegram yesterday morning from Edward L. Bernays and John R. Moot '43, co-chairmen of the citizens' committee, asked for co-operation in stopping the "extravagant waste of $7 million in Massachusetts taxpayers' money to build totally unnecessary underpasses on Memorial Drive...
...Bernays telegram quoted a report by Jackson and Moreland, consulting engineers to the Metropolitan District Commission, saying that "through traffic carrying capacity on Memorial Drive will not be improved [by the underpasses] except for the elimination of delays at the subject intersections...
...telegram charges that a proposal by the Cambridge City Planning Board for minor road changes and traffic controls, costing only $100,000, would accomplish the same purpose as the $7 million underpasses...