Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...training mission to teach Burmese pilots to fly newly delivered F-86 jet fighters. Washington officials stress that the U.S. intends to avoid any deep commitment in Burma-and with good reason. The country's rapid rate of deterioration makes South Viet Nam seem almost a model of stability...
...John J. Toomey (D-Camb.) and Sen. Francis X. McCann (D-Camb.) said over the weekend that the conflicts between the Inner Belt and the Model Cities grant indicate that the right hand of the federal government does not know what the left is doing. They concluded that the Model Cities grant "apparently spells the finish of the current Brookline-Elm Street route for the Inner Belt...
Their conclusion, unfortunately, is probably premature. The city's proposal for Model Cities funds did not consider the Inner Belt and the grant mutually exclusive. Lowell K. Bridwell, Federal Roads Commissioner said yesterday that the Grant "might even enhance" the city's ability to face problems created by the highway...
...forced to ask why the Model Cities grant should be put in the position of helping the city face a situation which is intolerable in its own right. In addition to the 1265 families displaced by the Belt, over 2700 jobs will be destroyed. The industrial expansion expected around the NASA site in Kendall Square will put a further freeze on those families which choose to remain. Planned twenty years ago, the Inner Belt is now of questionable necessity. The Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike has taken much of the pressure of the Central Artery. Boston has not grown...
...whole point of the Model Cities program is to preserve the kind of neighborhood the Inner Belt will destroy. The Belt is currently undergoing a major reassessment. If it is allowed to go through along its present Brookline-Elm St. route, with all of the disruption of families which that will entail, the Model Cities program could be reduced to a mere patching operation. The Model Cities grant provides yet another argument in the overwhelming case against the Inner Belt and its Brookline-Elm St. route...