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...demonstrate Cambridge's support of this position, anti-underpass leaders hope to attract as many people as possible to the Charles riverbank Sunday, June...
Bernays's efforts and the visible opposition of Cambridge citizens (at two separate state hearings affecting the underpasses, nearly 500 irate residents showed up at the State House) have rocketed the Memorial Drive controversy onto the front pages of the Boston papers and into the national press. Time magazine wrote about the debate in its "Modern Living" Section, and Life magazine gave its support to the anti-underpass campaign in an editorial decrying poor urban planning...
...Underpass opponents also state that the construction of the Massachusetts Turnpike on a route roughly parallel to Memorial Drive should ease the Drive's traffic problem considerably, making construction of the underpasses now premature...
...main pressure on the legislature to retain the plans for the underpasses is coming from two Democratic Cambridge representatives: State Sen. Francis X. McCann, the sponsor of the original underpass bill, and Rep. John Toomey, chair man of the powerful Ways and Means Committee in the House. McCann has charged that opponents of the underpasses are really trying to ruin him politically...
...rallying cry refers to the sycamore trees lining the Drive, some of which would be destroyed by the Bolyston Street underpass...