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...Belt's opponents are becoming convinced that the Institute's stand carries heavy weight at all levels of government. One man, for example, said of a recent meeting with Rex Whitton, head of the Federal Bureau of Roads: "We were in his office five minutes, and he asked what is M.I.T.'s position...
...related development, the Council received word from Rex Whitton, U.S. Commissioner of Public Roads, that he would like to come to Cambridge to tour the proposed route and meet with local leaders, but his schedule was tight...
...Washington, the Council will speak to Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D-Cambridge), and Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.). They will also present their case before Rex M. Whitton, administrator of the Bureau of Public Roads. The federal federal government will pay 90 per cent of the costs of the Inner Belt...
...nation's highways, spreading inexorably across the U.S., are not only transforming American life but having deep effects on business. Last week in Manhattan, Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton announced that the vast program to build 41,000 miles of interstate highway has just about reached the halfway mark: 19,950 miles opened, another 6,100 miles under construction. There is nothing halfway, though, about the economic impact that the $46.8 billion program has already made on dozens of areas across...
...later, the bus swung briefly onto old U.S. 1 for a glimpse of roadside blight-junkyards, billboards and used-car lots. Whitton commended owners of automobile junkyards, which he called "disassembling yards," who have tried to screen the rusting hulks from passing motorists; the Department of Commerce counts 17,760 auto graveyards and scrap heaps lining the country's main roads...