Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lebanese gangster. Moving on to the U.S. in 1964, they were booked into Dallas, where transoceanic satire is as welcome as revisions in the oil-depletion allowance. "It was murder," Hendra recalls. "They canceled us in a week." The boys have since played everything from the Catskills' Borscht Belt to a shortlived TV show called The Entertainers. Their favorite gig was at Mister Kelly's in Chicago, which burned down while they were onstage. The band played Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, and Nic stepped out to reassure the patrons: "Don't worry, my partner once quieted...
...rents to get the available apartments in the area, and their rents force up rents in general. According to Mayor Daniel J. Hayes Jr., temporary residents force 1000 permanent Cambridge families to move elsewhere each year. This malignant situation is even more critical when coupled with the proposed Inner Belt's threat to displace an estimated 1500 families...
...water as warm-weather refreshers, upper-caste Indians serve them at wedding receptions, and Middle East businessmen offer them to visitors as an alternative to Turkish coffee. Europeans mix their whisky with ginger ale or lemon-lime. White Rhodesians have a fad on for brandy and Coke. Zambian copper-belt workers, who once paid threepence for a home-brewed raspberry drink, now pay sixpence for "sophisticated" sodas. Everywhere, increasing ownership of refrigerators has lifted soft-drink sales. In Hong Kong, U.S. brands hold 60% of a $13 million market against such competitors as Pearl River, an aerated bottled water shipped...
M.I.T. became publicly involved in the Inner Belt question last Spring when it attacked one of the proposed alternate routes for the highway, down Portland and Albany Streets. Officials claimed the highway there would destroy several of its buildings and disrupt important research...
Since then, the Institute has been the target of much criticism from Cambridge leaders of the Inner Belt fight...