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...profit by the restoration of the machine to Cambridge. Significantly, the Cambridge Young Democrats, the most vigorous opponents of PR, are an ad hoc group formed recently only for the purpose of fighting the present system. In the ranks of these would-be revolutionaries are men such as John Briston Sullivan, whose chance of having his projects approved by a machine-dominated Council would undoubtedly be sterling...
...John Briston Sullivan's petition to buy land across from Littauer Center for an office building on stilts has become history (at least until the next legislative session), but Harvard's role in the controversy cannot be easily forgotten. Before Gov. Volpe, presumably under pressure, ended the battle by vetoing the bill, the University had pitted itself against five City Councilmen and much of Cambridge, worsening public relations which had only just begun to improve...
...rule out Foster Furcolo (for trying to keep Dean Bundy away from the New Frontier), John Briston Sullivan (for trying to bring him back), Pete Seeger '40, Lyndon Baines Johnson, James Reston, Howie Phillips '62, Ted Kennedy '54, Caldwell Titcomb '47, LeCorbusier, Bob Hope, and perhaps Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., rumored candidate for Massachusetts Governor...
...admitted, however, that work was "in the most preliminary stage," and that actual construction "isn't going to take place day after tomorrow." McClellan feels that the recent controversy over John Briston Sullivan's proposed office building had been important in prompting the report...
...Kenneth O'Donnell '49, special assistant to President Kennedy, emphatically denied last week that Kennedy had pressured Gov. Volpe into vetoing the John Briston Sullivan petition for a 15-story office building on stilts in the Square...