Word: belt
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MRDC men are also hard at work devising new techniques for transmitting radio signals in Southeast Asia, where both the dense, humid forests and the magnetic equatorial belt severely limit both range and reliability. Radio engineers have already made tests to determine the type of antenna that will operate most efficiently under these conditions and are scattering very high-frequency radio waves over the forest canopy to distant field receivers...
Working with a special committee from Cambridge, the DPW will now study plans for a Portland-Albany St. alignment for the highway. The designers of this route, a private group of planners called the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt, claim that it will displace both fewer jobs and families than the Brookline-Elm route. The Portland-Albany St. path is located East of Central Square just beyond the outer edge of the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...members of the Cambridge Committee on the Inner Belt said last night that they would refuse an invitation to work with the DPW unless Volpe made it clear that he had "irrevocably rejected" the Brookline-Elm route. The two men, Denis Blackett and Robert Goodman, declared in a statement...
Volpe's move came as an election-year campaign against the Belt gathered momentum. Last Monday, the Cambridge City Council passed a number of resolutions against the Belt. Edward McCormack, Volpe's opponent, has already come out against the Brookline-Elm route, and a march on the State House had been scheduled for October 15. The march was still planned last night, but one leader commented "we certainly can't make it an anti-Volpe march...
Another factor considered by leaders of the anti-Belt campaign is the reaction of M.I.T. to the apparent new strength of the Portland-Albany route. Last winter, the Institute vigorously opposed another route (the "railroad alignment") nearer to the campus as well as the Portland-Albany location. It is not known, however, whether the Institute's opposition to the Portland-Albany route is as firm as its opposition to the railroad location