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WASHINGTON, March 2--The Congressman whose district includes Harvard said today that the Bennett St. Yards of the Metropolitan Transit Authority should go to the University for the construction of a tenth house...
Exactly what the University has offered is a secret carefully guarded, but it has been estimated at between $3 to $4 million--a staggering sum that obviously appeals to the MTA. Yet unfortunately for Harvard, the Transit Authority faces the formidable problem of relocating its Bennett St. facilities and seems nowhere near a solution. Its General Manager, Thomas J. Mc-Clernon has suggested in recent statements that the MTA may soon settle this difficulty, but Tyler is scarcely so optimistic. He stresses, in fact, that the Authority must not only find and build a practical and extensive system...
...proposal neglected the fact that Cambridge has no clear authority to take the Yards from the MTA by eminent domain. Massachusetts cities derive the power of eminent domain from the commonwealth; as a State agency, the MTA derives every one of its powers from the same source. Since the Transit Authority could lose $1 million if Cambridge takes the Yards, and the City fears losing a large share of its "most valuable underdeveloped property" if Harvard buys directly from the MTA, the City's attempt to use eminent domain will almost certainly provoke a lengthy and expensive fight in court...
...seems that the University's problem involves not so much the City or the State as the Metropolitan Transit Authority itself. The MTA will not sell the Bennett St. Yards until it is forced to seek satisfactory facilities somewhere else. The prospects that anything of the kind will happen in the next few years look extremely...
...Dilworth (who nonetheless fired all the city employees involved) as "penny-ante stuff." Dilworth then took off for a round-the-world trip. By the time he came back, a Philadelphia contractor stood accused of profiting by $800,000 on a''$1,000,000 contract for city transit repairs; the same contractor had sent the city treasurer a Christmas bottle of whisky, cheerily wrapped in $100 bills. Dilworth, never touched personally by the scandals, admitted that "We were lax." It seemed for a while that his hopes for the governorship had been dashed...