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If we are going to salvage what is left of America's roads, bridges, dams and sewers [Jan. 10], let us kill two birds with one stone. We should put every able-bodied person receiving welfare or unemployment benefits to work on this project. We would be restoring a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

The 78-year-old Arch Bridge linking Bellows Falls, Vt., and North Walpole, N.H., was declared unsafe eleven years ago. It was supposed to be dropped into the Connecticut River last December. After five explosive blasts, the span still stood, much to the chagrin of the demolition crew. It was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1983 | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

Fifty years ago this Sunday, Jan. 30, 1933, when Helms was a Williams College sophomore getting ready for exams he heard that Adolf Hitler had become dictator of Germany. Two years later, in the fall of 1935, Helms was a United Press reporter in Berlin, hunched forward in his seat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Finding Peace in Strength | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

The primary U.S. routes will get $600 million for major repairs. Bridges will be al lotted $700 million for repairs, while the remaining $600 million will be devoted to highway safety programs and miscellaneous road projects.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Repairing of America | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

With his customary calculated hyperbole, James once called himself a "sartorial structural architect," and some of his gowns were constructed on the body like suspension bridges.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Puttin' on the Ritz in Gotham | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

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