Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed extension of the MTA subway along Massachusetts Ave. from Harvard Square to Porter Square is particularly welcome, and especially timely. The most practical plan calls for the line to continue on above ground from Porter Square to West Cambridge, and from there two branches would go on to Weston and Bedford. Both routes would intersect Route 128, the main highway circling Boston...
Also significant is the prospect of relieving congestion if busses and trolleys disappear and the Square ceases to be an all-day parking place for subway users. The improvement of service to outlying areas (currently there is only one train a day in each direction to Bedford) will greatly relieve the floods of automobiles that daily inundates Boston and Cambridge. The large parking and terminal facilities planned for the West Cambridge junction should also go a long way toward alleviating the Cambridge parking problem...
...bills, now before the State Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, call for the extension of the subway to Porter Sq. under Massachusetts Ave. and, from there, to either Bedford or Weston...
...Mary B. Newman and Lawrence F. Feloney, state representatives, are sponsoring the bills with Lenthall. Legislative approval is required for extension of the transit system, while the cost of the new subway would be borne by the 14 cities and towns served...
Keep Moving. Harry Belafonte has been out from under the hammer for a long time, but he pushes on with some of the same fierce drive of the kid in the subway, the hash slinger in the window, the misplaced pop crooner in the jazz dives. His capacity for working over a performance or a recording is legendary. When things are going right, he has been known to record all night, until, as Songwriter Lord Burgess says, "you expect his liver to come up with the next note...