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...shadow and sun, by elm or oak, A gentler-seeming kind of folk, More leisurely, as if their ways, Inherited from better days, Knew mildness and the atmosphere Held in suspension, even here, A sense of ceremonial, Of courtesy, of ritual, As if even here, unconsciously, We moved in grave amenity, Or dwelt in grace, as if the air Bespoke us laudable and fair...
...elm-lined meadow between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument, the 15-acre "Resurrection City" slowly began to take shape last week. As thousands of poor Negroes, Indians, Mexican Americans and a few Appalachian whites wound toward the capital in eight separate caravans from as far off as Seattle, Boston and Edwards, Miss., volunteer carpenters hammered together more than 200 tent-shaped, 10-ft. by 20-ft. plywood-and-plastic shelters to house them...
Hayes felt that the roads commissioner understood the damage which the DPW-approved Brookline-Elm route, (displacing some 1200 Cambridge families), would do to the City. "He's not one of those hardnosed road people who just wants to pour concrete," Hayes said...
...previous meeting in Cambridge on Tuesday, Bridwell apparently agreed that the joint development project should examine both Brookline-Elm and the Portland-Albany route on the edge of M.T. to decide which would be less harmful to the City. But the commissioner--probably under pressure from the DPW--now seems less enthusiastic about considering Portland-Albany, according to those present at the meeting...
...whole point of the Model Cities program is to preserve the kind of neighborhood the Inner Belt will destroy. The Belt is currently undergoing a major reassessment. If it is allowed to go through along its present Brookline-Elm St. route, with all of the disruption of families which that will entail, the Model Cities program could be reduced to a mere patching operation. The Model Cities grant provides yet another argument in the overwhelming case against the Inner Belt and its Brookline-Elm St. route...