The residents of North Harvard will carry their flight into the streets Tuesday with a float in the Columbus Day Parade. They have entered a float depicting bull-dovers demolishing their homes. It will consist of a truck carrying a banner saying "North Harvard Street" and towing a house with a bulldozer behind it. Stevan F. Goldin '64-4 said yesterday that hope this will dramatize the issue before all of Boston.
Goldin was the first resident of North Harvard to be evicted last summer and was one of the four subsequently arrested when they blocked a moving van from approaching the home of those scheduled for eviction next.
The fight against urban renewal in North Harvard has been an exercise in frustration. A suit in the Suffolk County Superior Court to question the constitutionality of the convictions was dismissed last summer. All six of those who received the first eviction notices have been evicted or have left.
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