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...those in the East Cambridge Hard Times and the Cambridgeport Homeowners and Tenants Association, share the principles and goals of CTOC and almost always work jointly with the well-organized Cambridge group. Small neighborhood organizations, such as the Douglas Street Tenants Association, which fought the introduction of a McDonald's hamburger stand in Central Square last spring, usually look to CTOC for guidance and advice...
Because many modern problems (e.g., crowded parks) "are the side effects of success, not the fruit of failure," Wallenberg suggests that they are not really problems at all. He dismisses critics of the food and decor at McDonald's, for example, with Ihe assertion that "the function of the fast-food business ... is quite simple: Women's Liberation." That is, it frees Mom from shopping, cooking and washing up, so don't complain. In the same vein, "suburban sprawl is a pejorative phrase that describes perhaps the most comfortable mass residential living conditions in history...
Cambridge has also joined the mass of communities across the nation who are fighting the expansion of the McDonald's quickie-hamburger chain. The Douglass Street Tenants' Association, a local civic group, asked the State Landmarks Commission to declare the pre-Civil War Greek revival building McDonald's planned to raze an official landmark. The city council temporarily held up the necessary building permits...
...State Landmarks Comission refused the group's request, and the McDonald's is already under construction...
...benefits for the current quarter will go up at an annual rate of 9.2%, and that the rate will rise, to 9.8% in the fourth quarter. Experts at the Government's Cost of Living Council fear that Eckstein's figures may be too conservative. Says Charles McDonald, head of the Office of Wage Stabilization: "There is definitely a trend now toward the building of a wage explosion...