Word: elms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little old lady walking down Commonwealth Ave. stopped under every tree and made an entry in her thick notebook. English elm. Nearly dead. She went on to the next tree...
Chief Justice Earl Warren dies of Dutch Elm disease. On his deathbed he mumbles inarticulately: "... Partrick Nugent... Texas School Book Depository... gak ... my heart...
...route, along Brookline and Elm street, would take the highway straight through the City near Central Square and, in the process, uproot between 3000 and 5000 people. Another possible path for the highway would run through an industrial area in the Eastern part of the City. The DPW is expected to select the Brookline-Elm St. route--one which has aroused strong opposition in Cambridge, but which the DPW actually approved last spring. This approval was subsequently withdrawn in the fall when Gov. John A. Volpe ordered a review of the project...
...believe however, that any statement about the Belt has "political" overtones. They are, therefore, wary about making a move. Nor does Harvard want to seem to oppose M.I.T., which has forcefully objected to two routes near its campus. These routes are considered the only practical alternatives to the Brookline-Elm St. location...
...committee will probably first attempt to mobilize faculty and student opposition to the Belt itself, or exert pressure for an alternate to the present Brookline-Elm St. route, which may displace as many as 1500 families. If this is impossible, however, they will work to find housing elsewhere for displaced families...