Word: area
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jacob Javits, acting chairman of the Senate Committee on Nutrition and Human Needs, was driven to a barnlike building in east Los Angeles known as the All-Nations Neighborhood Center. There, in a filth-encrusted gymnasium, Javits and Kansas Senator Robert Dole were shocked to find that the area's Mexican-Americans and Negroes were not only hungry and unhappy but also bitterly critical of the committee...
...made a bonfire of its doors, siding and window frames. Booths and tables were ripped from the taverns. Windows were smashed, and merchandise was scattered wildly. Tipsy students wandered into the community hall, maliciously shredding wallboard and vandalizing a soft-drink machine. A car that careened into the bonfire area was attacked and wrecked by 500 students. Ugly fist fights were started. Nearby Hazen's hospital offered first-aid service throughout the night for fallen pugilists...
...every bad trip in San Francisco takes place in the Haight-Ashbury district. Many straight commuters endure hazardous journeys daily as they try to maneuver through stationary streams of traffic heading for Oakland, Berkeley, Sausalito or suburbs beyond. Unique in many other respects, the San Francisco Bay Area suffers from the prevalent urban malady of too many automobiles, too few highway lanes. But unlike many other metropolitan areas, San Francisco and two neighboring counties are creating an attractive alternative to clogged highways...
...Area Rapid Transit district (BART), a 75-mile network of elevated, surface and subway tracks now under construction, is due to be completed by late 1972. It is a system of grandiose superlatives. First conceived in 1957, BART is primarily funded by a $792 million bond issue passed in 1962 by San Francisco, Alameda and Contra Costa counties. When inflated costs and design improvements necessitated an additional $150 million this year, the California legislature imposed a special half-cent hike in the three counties' state sales tax. This makes BART the largest locally financed public works project...
Tracks Out. BART will serve the 2,500,000 people who live in the three-county area, extending its tracks out from San Francisco roughly 20 miles north to Richmond, 30 miles east to Concord and 40 miles south to Fremont. Moreover, BART is only the beginning. More than a million additional people are expected to surge into the entire bay area by 1980, and transportation experts envision a total BART system of 385 miles, linking the nine counties in the San Francisco area...