Word: plot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...follow a less rigorous route to the land you can always join the Fly, an all-male final club whose land lies directly west of lot 81 and that, thanks to Harvard's persistent failure to use or lease the land, can offer its members privileged access to the plot...
That fall the negotiations for a sale hit the front page of The Crimson, which announced Harvard's plan to buy the land and speculated that the plot would be used for a new "commuter center." Hinting at Harvard's plans, the then undergraduate president of the Fly told The Crimson, "In view of the University's need to expand in the Cambridge area, we feel that such a sale of land, which isn't being used for anything at present, is justified, although we hate to see it go." More tea leaf reading on the land's destiny came...
Goyette's defense of the plot's 19-year holding pattern extends to the aesthetics of the current set-up. "Many say it's very delightful to have an open space as it now exists"--a space, he said, that can be "viewed and enjoyed by all who walk by." However, the fence that surrounds the property is backed up in many places by tall bushes and creeping ivy that prevent one from getting a clear view of the area. The Mt. Auburn St. side is completely obscured, as is the northern half of the Plympton St. frontage...
Such budgetary problems emerge in Goyette's unenthusiastic opinion of converting the plot into a park. He centers his objections around the "substantial" initial cost (for walks, lighting, and benches) and the "substantial costs" of maintenance (for caretaking, electricity, policing, and trash collection). Goyette ventures an estimate of $20,000 for the initial expenditure and several thousand dollars annually thereafter...
...almost unnoticed in the flurry about the incident in Sacramento, federal authorities in Santa Barbara, Calif., jailed two drifters on charges of threatening to kill the President. When police arrested Gary S. DeSur, 31, and Preston M. Mayo, 24, for stealing a television set, they discovered notes outlining a plot to assassinate Ford during his visit to Sacramento. Santa Barbara Detective Robert A. Zapata reported that the notes told how the two men had planned to break into an armory in San Francisco "and get guns, a sniper scope and dynamite...