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...Camb.) said over the weekend that the conflicts between the Inner Belt and the Model Cities grant indicate that the right hand of the federal government does not know what the left is doing. They concluded that the Model Cities grant "apparently spells the finish of the current Brookline-Elm Street route for the Inner Belt...
...twenty-year struggle against the eight-lane highway appeared lost last May, after the Massachusetts Department of Public Works announced its final choice of a route for the Cambridge link of the Belt--Brookline-Elm. Residents of the City had opposed any Belt route through Cambridge, but this route--which would pass near Central Square and displace some 1500 families--had always aroused the most anger...
...Moynihan and Nash insisted that the new study would be totally objective--not a propaganda attempt to persuade the federal government to abandon the Inner Belt. "When we're all through, we may come to the conclusion that it would be best to build the Belt right down Brookline-Elm," Nash commented...
...officials of surrounding cities--principally Boston and Somerville--still favor the general idea of an Inner Belt, though not necessarily the Brookline-Elm route. Mayor Hayes is "positive" that the new administrations in those cities will "review the problem of the Belt" after the November elections, but there is no guarantee that they would then join Cambridge's opposition to the highway...
Voluntarily continuing their research at the Agriculture Department's Beltsville, Md., Plant Industry Station-where they are affectionately called "wocs" for "without cost"-Dermen and May patiently placed colchicine on each new bud of Siberian elm seedlings, pruned off leaves and twigs that had normal chromosome counts, and rooted double-chromosome shoots until they had developed plants with only double-chromosome cells. A dozen of these tailored plants, each 15 in. high, were recently shipped to the department's Delaware, Ohio, research station, where they will be raised until they flower and then mated with American elms. That...