Word: inners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OTHELLO. Playing the Moor of Venice in black face, Laurence Olivier often strikes verbal fire from the kindling poetry of Shakespeare's tragedy, but fails to ignite the smouldering passion of the inner...
...impressive was this argument: (there is, one would think, an active Communist lobby to push an Inner Belt route through M.I.T.) that it would seem M.I.T. would merely have to have a number of scientific and defense agencies put the pressure on the Federal Bureau of Public Roads to stop any Inner Belt route inimicable to the Institute. (The federal government pays 90 per cent of the cost of the highway...
...Hence, we respectfully request that the home community of this great national resources pause and consider carefully whether an Inner Belt route should be recommended on a basic premise which excludes from consideration the 'present and projected needs of M.I.T...
M.I.T. offered concessions, but they were hardly staggering. When the Institute volunteered, for example, to supply financial and technical aid for new housing to aid those displaced by the Inner Belt, it made a relatively small gesture. The long-term costs of this course would be far less than accepting a route anywhere near the campus...
Three possible routes for the Inner belt now being seriously considered: The BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route would displace between 3000 - 5000 people and pass within several blocks of Central Square. The RAILROAD and PORTLAND-ALBANY ST. lines lie further to the East. The railroad alignment is actually bordered by M.I.T. laboratories; the Portland-Albany alignment is just beyond the fringe of the campus. It was these last two routes that M.I.T. rejected last Sunday. The Department of Public Works is also known to favor the BROOKLINE-ELM ST. route...