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...Arthur D. Little, the consultant firm, and asked them to do a private study. But the federal General Services Administration has expressed its confidence in Maguire Inc., and they will continue to employ them to write the authoritative report. It is amusing to note that even while the GSA was trying to decide whether to fire Maguire for professional misconduct under political pressure, this terse paragraph appeared in the Short Circuits column of the April 14 Boston Globe: "Former Rep. Peter Cloherty of Brighton, a 'public relations' consultant for Maguire Associates engineering firm, is using Congressman Thomas P.O'Neill...
...GSA decided to retain Maguire to prepare the report, and has rescheduled a public hearing on the draft statement for September...
George Grant, Maguire's director of the study, last month asked the GSA to extend the 120-day June deadline because of the time lost establishing relations with the Cambridge community and problems created by the lack of definite library plans. Architect I.M. Pei is scaling down the library plans in response to increased construction costs and community criticism of the $27-million project...
...statement, GSA's Sampson said the new schedule "will ensure a full hearing from community interests...
Shortly after Maguire's appointment on February 13, Cambridge civic leaders asked the GSA to investigate several allegations against the firm, including the charge that Maguire had unethically altered a report under pressure from another client, the Massachusetts Port Authority...