Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Moderate Noises. A former state legislator and highway commissioner, Ward, 58, has suffered from a stodgy, standoffish campaign style. Realizing how close the race has become, he last week recalled Nunn's appeals to the backlash vote in the Republican primary and charged: "He's doing it again. He's running a disgraceful campaign. He would make a disgraceful Governor...
...amendments approved by the House and because the actual amount of war expenditures is uncertain. The first amendment, proposed by Mississippi Democrat Jamie Whitten, would limit spending for many activities to last year's level. But the Viet Nam war and a number of domestic programs such as highway construction and Medicare were specifically exempted from the ceiling. The second amendment, put forward by Ohio Republican Frank Bow, put an arbitrary limit of $131.5 billion on all spending with the proviso that Johnson could add to that figure only to meet new war costs. The effect of the bill...
However, even at that time, Moynihan and Nash emphasized that their primary interest was not the Inner Belt per se, but rather the entire procedure by which the government chooses highway routes. They even declined to answer questions about the merits of the various Inner Belt routes...
...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...
...state planning establishment have fought long and hard for the Belt; they might well continue fighting for it even after an unfavorable report by the new committee. And Governor Volpe--who was the first Federal Highway Administrator back in 1956--said flatly last May, "The Belt was needed 20 years ago, and it's needed more today...