Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Three possible routes for the Inner belt now being seriously considered: The BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route would displace between 3000 - 5000 people and pass within several blocks of Central Square. The RAILROAD and PORTLAND-ALBANY ST. lines lie further to the East. The railroad alignment is actually bordered by M.I.T. laboratories; the Portland-Albany alignment is just beyond the fringe of the campus. It was these last two routes that M.I.T. rejected last Sunday. The Department of Public Works is also known to favor the BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route...
...committee, a private group of planners, has been working since last fall against the Brookline-Elm St. route, which would wipe out from 1000 to 1500 homes and pass close to Central Square. Last Sunday M.I.T. vehemently rejected the two routes most often mentioned as alternative locations for the Belt. These routes, which would infringe on the Institute's campus, were pictured as causing $80 million in damage to M.I.T...
...bedevil an army of certified public accountants, enough opportunities for sleight of hand to exhaust a prestidigitator. The budget gives the impression of disclosing what everything costs, right down to the last G51 clerk ($3,507), but it carefully conceals such strategic particulars as the spending of the Central Intelligence Agency (estimated to be about $500 million, though there is no exact way of telling), the real cost of running the President's office and the price of such defense items as the U-2 spy planes and the SR-71 jets...
...routes. In 1500 B.C., the Aryans swept through to invade India. In the 4th century B.C., Alexander the Great's phalanx conquered the land. In turn, the Indians bearing Buddhism, the Persians, the White Huns, the Arabs preaching Islam, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan all used Central Asia as steppingstones to empire...
...size and manner might suggest a foot ball coach last week won election as general secretary of the World Council of Churches, the unity-seeking organization to which 214 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox bodies belong. Meeting at their new headquarters in Geneva, members of the World Council's central committee chose the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake (TIME cover, May 26, 1961), stated clerk of the United Presbyterian Church, to succeed Willem Visser 't Hooft, council chief since it was founded...