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...sight of the Expressway there are more lambs, more stacks of oranges, more imported Italian groceries. Then, just when the banquet seems ended, pass through the shadow of the aerial highway and the world is bananas, watermelons and parsnips. Friday and Saturday the outdoor pushcart market comes to Dock Square, and the North End goes shopping. The vendors set up their pushcarts on Blackstone Street and enclose themselves in a square of crates. Pyramids of tomatoes and oranges. Baskets of brocholi. "A-spare-a-grass. Four pounds for 95 cents. A-spare-a-grass here," yells a short, bouncy vendor...
Unity for Division. The second scheme, announced by Mayor John Lindsay last week, is really a doubleheader: it starts with 5½ miles of existing Long Island Rail Road tracks in Brooklyn, calls for covering them over first with the proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway, then placing on top of that a "spine city" of schools and colleges, housing, parks and community facilities. The planners envision shuttle trains and moving sidewalks to carry people to and from the length of the spine, see the linear plan as capable of indefinite extension...
...howling blast began Thursday morning. By midafternoon, Chicago's streets were clogged by wind-whipped snowdrifts and stalled autos. With traffic at a standstill and visibility at zero, tens of thousands of marooned workers had to spend the night in firehouses, hospitals and hotels. On the Calumet Expressway, 1,000 stranded motorists joined hands so that they would not get lost, snaked their way to nearby homes. A 50-year-old woman suffered a fatal heart attack on a stalled bus at 5 a.m. Friday. Not until six hours later could snowbound police remove her body...
...Cambridge. There has hardly been a stir of protest, though such a stir-had it come early enough and had it been large enough-might have bolstered considerably the campaign against the highway. It might still do some good, but most Faculty members apparently care little that the expressway may go through the center of Central Square and displace between 3000 and 5000 people (about five per cent of Cambridge's residential population...
...would have opposed the Inner Belt only on conditional grounds. It would have suggested that the original problems that prompted the planning of the Belt--almost two decades ago--have changed considerably. As a result, the statement would have urged the state to delay any firm decision on the expressway until a comprehensive new transportation study of the metropolitan area could be made...