Word: underpass
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McCann then "challenged the sincerity" of most of the anti-underpass campaign...
Recalling that only one person had showed up in February 1962 at the original hearing on the underpass bill, McCann said that the issue remained dead until October 1963, when the Cambridge Chronicle-Sun carried a letter objecting to the underpasses which, "just by faint coincidence," was written by the campaign manager of Mrs. Cornelia B. Wheeler, McCann's opponent in the election for state seator. The man was Moot...
...addition, he maintained the underpass bill had not been "sneaked" through the legislature. It was 16 moths after the bill had been signed by Gov. John A. Volpe in June 1962, before the first opposition was heard...
...senator also had some harsh words for retired public-relations man Edward L. Bernays, who has been engineering the anti-underpass campaign...
Referring to two expressways, the Inner Belt and the Northwest Express- way, that are expected to be constructed through East Cambridge, he charged that "Not one of these (anti-underpass) people ever lifted a voice or a pen to help the 1500 families" who will probably be evicted by the expressways...