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...Uprooting Bushes. The inflationary rise is getting a strong tail wind from the country's primitive agriculture, which is failing to keep up with the annual increase in the birth rate. Last year, Brazil's population increased almost roughly by the equivalent of the total population of Uruguay (pop. 2.7 million). Yet Brazil's farm tools and techniques are so antiquated that the country actually produces less corn and wheat per acre than it did 30 years ago. Moreover, one-fourth of what it does produce spoils before it reaches market because of poor transportation and storage...
...route, along Brookline and Elm street, would take the highway straight through the City near Central Square and, in the process, uproot between 3000 and 5000 people. Another possible path for the highway would run through an industrial area in the Eastern part of the City. The DPW is expected to select the Brookline-Elm St. route--one which has aroused strong opposition in Cambridge, but which the DPW actually approved last spring. This approval was subsequently withdrawn in the fall when Gov. John A. Volpe ordered a review of the project...
...Cambridge, both routes will be costly. Brookline-Elm displaces from 1200 to 1500 families, claims 2300 jobs and runs straight through Central Square. The Portland-Albany route would eliminate, at a minimum, the same number of jobs and uproot about 150 families. Moreover, it would run through and industrial area near M.I.T. which promises to attract a considerable amount of future research and defense industry. Given these relative costs, however, the Portland-Albany route seems the lesser of two evils...
...opponents of the eight-lane highway, the governor's announcement was an important victory and a significant setback for the Brookline-Elm St. route. This route, fought for years by the City, threatens to go straight through Cambridge's largest commercial district -- Central Square -- and uproot between 3000 and 5000 residents...
...continuing fight against the Inner Belt Highway must not make Cambridge lose sight of the terrible problems that the highway will cause if the fight is unsuccessful. The expressway, all eight lanes of it, will uproot between 3000 and 5000 people, and thereby aggravate an already serious shortage of middle and lower income housing...