Word: sidewalks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Complying with a City Council order, the University has set back the fence around the Gund Hall construction site, to give pedestrians a full five feet of walking space on the adjacent sidewalk. The Council had issued a permit for the fence, but threatened to revoke it after hearing complaints that the fence-then in the middle of the sidewalk-was forcing pedestrians to walk in the street...
About 7 Cambridge policemen were called out, but they merely instructed the students not to block the sidewalk. Students near the door held signs stating that "Hazen's is elitist." They asked potential customers to join the boycott...
...veteran news dealer captured the general sentiment of sidewalk onlookers, "They ought to call the psycho ward and be done with them," he said...
...Monday's council meeting, David Eaglesfield, teaching fellow in Social Relations, complained that the temporary fence Harvard put up enclosing most of the Quincy Street sidewalk next to the Gund Hall construction site is forcing pedestrians to walk in the street...
During one five minute period, he said, 33 of 40 pedestrians walked in the traffic lane of Quincy St, because of the fence, which runs down the middle of the sidewalk, leaving only a two-foot walkway a path impaired by several poles...