Word: belt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Motors' West German Opel and English Ford, have as standard items in their '67s some of the features that their U.S. cousins have-including padded dashboards and emergency flasher lights. The Europeans, too, are offering disc brakes, recessed knobs and fixtures, both front and rear safety-belt anchorages, plus such equipment as impact-absorbing bodies (France's Renault and Britain's Rover 2000) and built-in roll bars (Sweden's Volvo). Nonetheless, to judge from the reactions of the crowds that visited the Paris auto show last week, speed and styling were far more...
M.I.T. is unlikely to change its stand, and the danger is that its protests will count more strongly with the Governor than they merit. Volpe's decision on the Belt will be, as it has always been, extraordinarily difficult. But if he is reelected in November, he should use the power of his office to give Cambridge the route that, in the long run, will destroy the least: Portland-Albany...
...less than a month to election time in Massachusetts, and the political tempo is accelerating. Last week, the pressure of politics had one very obvious effect: Gov. John A. Volpe abandoned his administration's long-standing, but unpopular, position favoring the Brook-line-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt through Cambridge. Volpe pledged he would "start from scratch" in selecting a path for the highway...
...been encouraging scientific and engineering firms to move into the area. But these goals, though disrupted by an eight-lane highway, are still not entirely thwarted. An M.I.T. that encourages a well-designed depressed highway through the City could do a great deal to ease the Inner Belt's impact on Cambridge, and minimize the damage to the Institute's own plans as well...
...Belt's opponents are becoming convinced that the Institute's stand carries heavy weight at all levels of government. One man, for example, said of a recent meeting with Rex Whitton, head of the Federal Bureau of Roads: "We were in his office five minutes, and he asked what is M.I.T.'s position...