Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard will probably not take a public stand on the Inner Belt in the near future...
Urged by local residents to oppose the eight-lane expressway, the University briefly considered recommending that the state take a thorough look at the metropolitan area's transportation problems before building the Belt. Harvard sent a statement to M.I.T. and Boston University in the hope that the three universities could take a common position...
...statement would have opposed the Inner Belt only on conditional grounds. It would have suggested that the original problems that prompted the planning of the Belt--almost two decades ago--have changed considerably. As a result, the statement would have urged the state to delay any firm decision on the expressway until a comprehensive new transportation study of the metropolitan area could be made...
...ketch for ease in handling by one man. Named after the De Havilland plane that Chichester had once piloted around the Pacific, the slender-beamed Gipsy Moth was outfitted for comfort. In his quarters were a galley designed by his wife, a red upholstered chair with a safety belt and a radio transmitter by which to report his weekly progress to two London newspapers...
...freezing of federal funds will delay the controversial Inner Belt Highway somewhat, by stalling land acquisitions in Roxbury, according to the Boston Globe. But the announcement of the Cambridge segment of the eight-lane highway is still expected in the next three or four weeks...