Nevertheless, Dorchester residents reacted violently. Their legislators were able to pass a bill outlawing MBTA repair facilities within 800 yards of a hospital. Carney Hospital was 700 yards away. Last summer, after a public hearing, all hope was lost for the Codman site.

MBTA officials began searching again. They considered building at Alewife Brook or Braintree, the two terminals of the expanded system. But routes would not be completed there for at least five years.

Several months ago secret soundings began in the Butler area, near a cemetery and a swampland. The Butler yards will cost up to five times as much as the proposed Codman yards, MBTA officials estimate.

While this was going on, both Harvard and the Kennedy were losing money at a rate of around two per cent a year, since costs were rising seven per cent annually and interest rates on the $21-million investment increased by only five per cent.

The Kennedy Library Corporation has endowed Harvard with $10 million for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. The public part of the complex--archives and museum--will cost another $10 million. The extra $1 million is for miscellaneous fees.

I.M. Pei, architect for the Library, said last May that the financial problem could become critical. "Unless we can find more money, we'll have to build less," Pei said at the time.

As soon as the Bennett St. repair yards become available, the Library Corporation is prepared for site-clearing, planning, and financing the complex. Massachusetts has already agreed to provide over $6 million to buy the site from the MBTA