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Since taking the case at Lance's request on Labor Day weekend, Clifford had digested all of the treacherous details, brought discipline and organization to Lance's arguments, and counseled him to meet his accusers headon. Day and night the two worked in Clifford's dark-paneled office overlooking the White House, hammering out an artfully worded defense to each charge of impropriety...
Polls conducted by Dean Fox's office during the past several years showed that students living at Radcliffe list building a recreational athletic facility as their chief request towards making life at the Quad more desirable. The proposed facility will be built on the present site of five outdoor tennis courts on the corner of Bond and Garden Sts., and will not reduce open park space...
...recommendation, which will be sent to the city council some time next week, will request that the Harvard-owned land bordered by Garden, James, and Mason streets be down-zoned to have the maximum height of any buildings from 85 to 35 feet. The city council is the only governing body which can make a change in the zoning map, and the proposed change from a C-1 to a C-2 classificationmuy be approved by seven of the nine councilors...
Radcliffe's proposed athletic facility on Observatory Hill originally prompted the Cambridge community to request a down-zoning this summer, when protests turned away from Radcliffe's project to focus on Harvard's long-range plans. The plans published in 1975 designate some of that land as a possible site for a parking garage although Harvard has no present plans to build a garage there...
...Wilton B. Persons, 81, amiable chief assistant to President Eisenhower (1958-61); in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. During World War II Persons was the Army's top lobbyist on Capitol Hill-a job he performed so well that Chief of Staff General George Marshall refused General Eisenhower's request for Persons' services in North Africa. Although Persons retired from the Army in 1949, Eisenhower persuaded him to return to active duty in 1951 to act as his go-between in Paris with foreign diplomats. He later served as Eisenhower's campaign adviser...