Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mothers showed up at Johnson's office at 9:30 yesterday morning, armed with signs, blankets, and food. They also had a letter addressed to Johnson calling on M.I.T. to denounce the proposed Brookline-Elm St. route of the Inner Belt, and to either join in blocking the highway altogether or to help find a "more humane" route...
M.I.T. became publicly involved in the Inner Belt question last Spring when it attacked one of the proposed alternate routes for the highway, down Portland and Albany Streets. Officials claimed the highway there would destroy several of its buildings and disrupt important research...
...state for eight years with enough success to merit re-election. Under his Master Plan for Higher Education, new, experimental public and private colleges have sprung up throughout the state. Faced with the difficulty of handling thousands of incoming residents, Brown has built the nation's largest toll-free highway system. He has kept the Southern California economic boom from coming to a rasping, bone-dry halt by forcing construction of a reservoir and water-pipe system rivalling the Tennessee Valley Authority in size and expense...
...Democrats sent up as a trial balloon, a charge that Anderson had ordered concrete to be poured in freezing weather. This reportedly resulted in substandard construction of a stretch of Highway 35, which he wanted finished before election time. The governor's loud and righteous denials turned the accusation into the campaign's biggest issue and led to his defeat...
...Rolvaag won by 91 votes out of more than 1,200,000 cast -- and that was after a four-month recount. The victory soured as soon as Minnesotans became convinced that the Democratic charges about Highway 35 were fabricated. Rolvaag's showing in public opinion polls was abysmal -- often fewer than 40 per cent indicated approval...