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...early afternoon it was cold and sunless. A very light, raw rain began to wash over Yale's gray stone. I walked down Broadway, the slightly sleezier, more tightly jammed Mass. Ave. of New Haven. Down Elm Street to the Old Campus where the freshmen live and where several coed games of frisbee and touch football dotted the quad. All over the campus there was something giddy in the air--like a giant joke that everyone was in on. Lots of smiling went on. People smiled at each other on the street and said hello for no reason. One ecstatic...
Though some of the 1200-odd families living along Brookline and Elm Streets--the previously-chosen route of the Belt--cast their votes for Volpe in gratitude, an undercurrent of cynicism about the study never left the City. The state Department of Public Works, which had firmly supported Brookline-Elm, was controlling the study. And Volpe himself, a longtime Belt-booster, had little interest in a new study beyond the votes it would yield...
...cynics were right. In the spring of 1967, as soon as Volpe was comfortably settled for a new term, the DPW announced that, after due consideration, it had decided Brookline-Elm was indeed the best route...
...February, a relieved Cambridge sighed that at least the final, irrevocable decision on the Belt had been delayed for two years. But at the moment, no one can tell if it'll even be that long before the BPR makes the decision to send the bulldozers crawling up Brookline-Elm...
...state penitentiary at Parchman has allowed similar visits for at least fifty years (TIME, Aug. 18, 1967). The California scheme goes much farther. Granted to well-behaved prisoners nearing the end of their terms, the family visits last 42 hours, take place in a former staff residence surrounded by elm trees and shrubs...