Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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On Beacon Hill, legislators from Cambridge have already introduced bills to facilitate sale or lease of the land to Sullivan and Chase, who recently promoted construction of the Treadway Motor (on stilts) in Brattle Sq. There has been speculation that success of the new might lead to closing of the...
Charles P. Whitlock, Assistant to the President for Civic Affairs, commented last night that such a plan might further the already very complicated situation. "Planning officials feel that this one of the few open spaces left in Cambridge, and should be utilized to improve the whole design of the Square...
Technically, the area under consideration may lie within the bounds of Cambridge Common, a fact that may cause groups to block the plan. A spokesman for one such group, the Cambridge Historical Society, predicted that the council might vote against the plan because "the Common has historic associations."
Mrs. George Hall, curator of the group, took an opposite stand, however. She expressed hope that the council would vote in favor of the plan, anything "to get that mess out of Harvard Sq."
Among the legislators who supported the bill for purchase were John R. , Jr. and John J. Campbell, co-authors of the bill to study best means of utilizing the MTA Bennett St. yard.