Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than ten years after the formulation of a plan for the Inner Belt highway, the most that has materialized is inaction and indecision. Particularly in Cambridge, where the road is a political deus ex machina for major urban renewal projects, indecision and factionalism prevail...
...ghetto involved here is Chicago's black belt, where Scriptwriter Hansberry lived as a child. The hero (Sidney Poitier), his wife (Ruby Dee), his twelve-year-old son (Stephen Perry), his mother (Claudia McNeil) and his sister (Diana Sands) are all jammed together in three small rooms, toilet down the hall. Wife and mother do cleaning for white folks, sister is a pre-med student, hero drives a Cadillac for a downtown business executive-and hates it. At night he paces his low-rent prison and snarls at the walls: "I got to change my life...
...limbs, and knees just missing one another when the feet are wide apart, this is not Princess Volupi e. It is Phyllis Diller, the poor man's Auntie Mame, only successful female among the New Wave comedians and one of the few women funny and tough enough to belt out a "standup" act of one-line gags...
...customers happy as well. From any of Goodbody's 39 branches outside New York City a customer's order is teletyped over A.T. & T.'s Finac network to the home office, where an operator puts it into one of the variously colored grooves in a conveyor belt to route it to the right clerk. Within minutes the order is telephoned to one of Goodbody's brokers on the Exchange floor. On normal trading days a buyer in Palm Beach can have his order executed in New York and get notification within five minutes. At Goodbody...
According to sponsor Thomas M. McNamara, the order to oppose Governor Volpe's $90 million highway bill would only apply to construction of an Inner Belt in Cambridge. McNamara said he hoped that the Cambridge State House delegation might amend the bill to give the City Council veto power over the route...