Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jack Watkins, and one of Buckley's fellow kidnapers who cooperated with the prosecution. Watkins had been picked out apparently because as an ex-con he seemed more open to coercion. This is how the prosecution told the story: Buckley and another man drove Watkins to a secluded road near Pascagoula, where they were met by three Klansmen in full hooded regalia. The gang urged Watkins to perjure himself and say that Bowers had been with him at the time of the bombing. When Watkins refused, Lawyer Buckley pulled a knife. Watkins was dragged from the car and knocked...
Fortunately, Soutine was unable to lay his hands on the 100-odd landscapes acquired in 1923 by Philadelphia's Albert C. Barnes, some of which were later resold to other collectors and found their way into Manhattan galleries. The purchase set Soutine on the road to financial independence and made his work available for New York artists, turning Soutine, Willem-nilly, into a link in the chain of artistic development that runs from Van Gogh to De Kooning...
...will not be easy. The DPW's plans call for the Belt to cut through the heart of Central Square. It could displace at least 1200 families, plus numerous businesses. Indeed, the damage of the Belt has already begun. Fearful of the onslaught of the road, some families in the Belt's path are already letting their properties deteriorate. Others have simply moved...
Exactly what this second, so-called "joint development" study will eventually propose to minimize the damage of the Belt is still uncertain. Apparently, ways will be sought to bring an influx of Federal money into the neighborhoods affected by the road. In particular, the Model Cities program may help relocate families displaced by the Belt, provide loans to area businessmen, and furnish other compensations. The problems of building and financing "air rights construction"--houses and business built on a platform above the depressed highway--will also be a likely topic. After that, it's anybody's guess...
Like it or not, the City will probably lose its 20-year holding action against the highway. But Cambridge at least has the opportunity to reduce the injury the road will cause and to learn to live with its concrete conqueror...