Word: wheelises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The controversy over the BRA's plan to replace private homes in North Harvard with high-rise, high-rent apartments, attracted state and national attention this summer when the 11, including two Harvard graduates, Steven B. Goldin '64 and James B. Wheelis '64, were arrested in two separate incidents.
At any rate, it didn't take long for politicians to recognize the explosiveness of the issue. Within hours after Wheelis' Monday eviction, news of the incident began to spread around the city, and the Legislature and City Council both took action.
Evicted were James Wheelis '64, his wife, and their eight-month-old son Eric. Arrested with $2000 bond were Stevan B. Goldin '64-4; his brother David, 17, of Green Point, N.Y.; Marion A. Gillon, 19, 4 Hefferan St.; John L. Scott, 32, of Roxbury; Herbert R. Brazao, 41, of...
Then a moving van moved back to the Wheelis house, and deputy sheriffs ordered the people sitting in on the porch in front of the entrance to move. They refused and sang "God Bless America." Finally, deputies attempted to climb on the porch, and when resistance continue, the police moved...
Wheelis said that a bill giving residents a larger measure of con- trol in any urban renewal project affecting their homes will be introduced in the legislature Tuesday morning. Immediately afterward, the lawyer for the North Harvard residents, William Homans, Jr. will go to court to obtain a restraining order...