Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YEARS AGO Massachusetts Governor John A. Volpe, in the midst of a re-election campaign, made one of the few decisions that has ever won the ex-contractor any acclaim in Cambridge. Vope ordered a re-examination of the route which Cambridge's eight-lane nemesis, the Inner Belt highway, would take through the City...
Though some of the 1200-odd families living along Brookline and Elm Streets--the previously-chosen route of the Belt--cast their votes for Volpe in gratitude, an undercurrent of cynicism about the study never left the City. The state Department of Public Works, which had firmly supported Brookline-Elm, was controlling the study. And Volpe himself, a longtime Belt-booster, had little interest in a new study beyond the votes it would yield...
Against overpowering evidence, Humphrey himself maintains a visceral conviction that he can still win. "I'm down in the Farm Belt and in the Rocky Mountains," he says. "I know that. But I'm going to win the big states and the big electoral vote, and I'm going to win the election." Jetting from New York to Texas to California last week, seeking to rekindle traditional party loyalty among Jews, Negroes and Spanish-Americans, Humphrey rasped appeals and encouragement to his troops...
...adversaries--supermarket and picketers--seemed woefully mismatched. The store was brightly lit, cleanly efficient, inviting. Sturdy, serious teenage boys, carrying packages from the outside conveyor belt to the cars waiting along the curb, hustled past the picketers who circled slowly and unevenly along the length of the storefront...
...Independent Party Band," a small combo with electrified instruments that churns out Nashville-style country music and leads the audience in a slow rendition of God Bless America. Then on come the Taylor Sisters, Mona and Lisa, two seasoned blondes who harmonize a couple of toe-tapping standards and belt out an anthem entitled Are You for Wallace? (to the tune of Are You from Dixie...