Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the long suspense ended. The world's most powerful atom smasher, which will generate 200 billion electron volts of energy, will be built in Weston, Ill., a tiny (pop. 400) village 35 miles west of Chicago. A corn-belt community that began as a housing development only seven years ago, Weston is in for some very big changes. Its growth was stunted when the original promoter ran into financial difficulty and pulled out, and it remains so undeveloped today that it has no doctor, no school, no movie house, not even a store...
...blue-eyed blonde who most resembles her father. Julie chauffeurs her to nursery school every day in her 1965 Falcon station wagon, and at least one day a week sends the nanny off and takes over completely. The two paint together (Julie took up oils this fall) or belt out duets of Daisy, Daisy, although Emma doesn't like to hear Mummy rehearse-which is why she has to practice while driving to work...
...Anti-Belt Groups...
This argument is not new; it has been forwarded by a number of anti-Belt groups, but thus far has not affected state authorities. The Massachusetts Department of Public Works is now preparing a final recommendation for the Cambridge section of the highway. An announcement is expected early in January...
University officials believe however, that any statement about the Belt has "political" overtones. They are, therefore, wary about making a move. Nor does Harvard want to seem to oppose M.I.T., which has forcefully objected to two routes near its campus. These routes are considered the only practical alternatives to the Brookline-Elm St. location...