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...final effort by Rep. Mary Newman of Cambridge to kill the petition by referring it to the next annual session of the Legislature failed by a decisive 75-127 vote...
Attempts by Rep. Mary Newman of Cambridge to amend the bill so that the sale would have to pass a popular referendum at the polls in November also failed, 125 to 90. It is definitely expected that the bill will pass the House today...
...Rep. John J. Toomey and Rep. George W. Spartichino, two of the bill's sponsors, told the House that Assistant Attorney General Gerald A. Berlin had sent state police to question them about alleged financial involvement in the affair...
...Rep. Spartichino agreed with Toomey about the "dastardly" quality of the accusations and the necessity for home rule in Cambridge. "Very seldom do I take the microphone, but today I have to take it," he declared. He told the House that Berlin (a member of the Cambridge Civic Association), had sent two state troopers to "ask me if I had any financial ties with this bill...
Joining with Mrs. Newman was Rep. Freyda Koplow of Brookline, who opposed the "sale of public park land for private purposes." Professional people have declared the bill unsound and the MTA has taken no stand on the issue, Mrs. Koplow maintained. "We should not sell the land for the benefit of John Briston 'Stilts' Sullivan...