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...Education, the Law School, the Department of Social Relations, the Department of Economics, and the Division of Engineering and Applied Physics. The first five areas are likely to receive the urban chairs, President Pusey said yesterday at a press conference with M.I.T. president Howard W. Johnson and Daniel P. Moynihan, Director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies...
Harvard cool-liberalism means the good old basic beliefs in equality and civil rights. It also means what Daniel P. Moynihan calls "the politics of stability," a fundamental belief in the order. Finally, it means non-involvement, an aloofness from politics...
This avowal of objectivity did not impress the Boston Globe--a longtime supporter of the Belt--which next day editorialized against the study and called for the building of the Belt. The paper noted that both Moynihan and Nash had last spring led a group of 528 Harvard and M.I.T. faculty members calling for a restudy of the Inner Belt and other transportation plans for the metropolitan Boston area...
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...
...committee will give Cambridge another talking point in the battle of the Belt, but political power can always over-rule professional reports. The City has been granted a reprieve; but the threat of the Belt is no less real than ever, only a little more distant.DANIEL P. MOYNIHAN Objective Study...