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The history of the Boston toll road-freeway controversy has been one of sudden compromise, of veiled threats, and of panic in the face of a clock that is running down. In the first stage it centered around newly-elected governor John A. Volpe, around William F. Callahan, chairman of...
After the Callahan-Volpe pact, attention shifted to Mayor Gibbs of Newton, who had been an opponent of the toll road since its inception. Although reconciled to the need for a link between the Massachusetts Pike and Boston, Gibbs championed a freeway that would edge Waltham and Watertown, that would...
When Gibbs saw that the fate of the Prudential depended on a road down the B & A, and that the Callahan-Volpe deal ensured a toll road, he agreed to compromise. In return for certain changes in the route from Weston to a point in Watertown near the Perkins School...
Statesmen for the Authority have emphasized that it is impossible to institute the changes that Gibbs demands. The route, product of "years of study and thousands of hours quizzing motorists," has been created for demonstrated needs. Any change at all, said the Callahan forces, will threaten the Prudential project, which...
Comic Ghoul. Max Beerbohm remains the master among the parodists, although men of greater genius (e.g., Proust, who makes an appearance in French spoofing Balzac, and William Faulkner, in a rare item, parodying himself) have worked in this deceptive motley. Why the passion for parody among writers? Macdonald finds parody...