Word: benfield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Michael Benfield, the mothers showed up at Johnson's office at 9:30 yesterday morning, armed with signs, blankets, and food. They also had a letter addressed to Johnson calling on M.I.T. to denounce the proposed Brookline-Elm St. route of the Inner Belt, and to either join in blocking the highway altogether or to help find a "more humane" route...
...mass march of perhaps as many as 15,000 on the State House in early June was tentatively suggested. The group is also expected to provide anti-highway signs and help raise money for the proposed study. Its present empoverished financial condition was emphasized, however, when Mrs. Michael Benfield, a local community leader in the Brookline-Elm St. area, pleaded for $50 to pay the rent for "Save Our Cities" temporary headquarters...
...Inner Belt, a group of private planners, said the "Council's action was neither as strong as clear as we would like." However, the Committee, which had recommended one of the routes near M.I.T., pledged its continued support in the City's campaign against the Belt. Mrs. Michael Benfield, a local leader in the Brookline-Elm area, said she would have liked the Council to make a recommendation...
...Michael Benfield, one of the leaders, blamed apathy and the poor weather for the light turnout. "I'll be a lot of people said to themselves. "They're not going to march today,'" Mrs. Benfield said...
...government gets thinking that it can take 5000 people's homes without being questioned, then this isn't democracy in my mind," Mrs. Benfield told the small crowd at City Hall. She nailed a petition to the door asking the City Council to oppose the Brookline Elm St. route and recommended another location for the highway. Only one of the nine councillors, Walter J. Sullivan, made the march...