Word: broad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shroud-grey. Any one man's traffic experience on a bad day can make it seem that the U.S. is well on its way to hell on wheels, that the nation faces an infinite problem. But a different experience, such as speeding through a rainy night on a broad new highway, might give a glimmer of a truer judgment: the strong and affluent U.S. can conquer traffic congestion-and is well along the road toward doing...
...building costs for these broad, eight-to 36-in.-thick roads average $1,141,000 per mile. Columbia Professor William Vickrey says that the "subsidy" on some expressways is as much as 10? per car-mile, roughly equal to the vehicle's operating cost. On balance, however, the motorist saves big sums in reduced operating and accident costs, saved time and lessened strain. The road-building money is extracted from the motorist himself, in taxes on fuel, tires, accessories and truck weight. In the Interstate system, which is supposed to cost $46.8 billion by the time it is finished...
...Broad, open and breezy as the superhighway may be out in the country, it often hits trouble at the city limits. The name of the trouble is "downtown." Where cities prize the idea of a distinct center, or where they are locked into it by topography, as in New York City or San Francisco, the congestion of building at the center vastly increases the difficulty of applying the principles-divided lanes, cloverleafs -of the expressway. Where cities have ample room and are indifferent to the idea of "downtown," expressways can be shaped in belts, loops and spokelike patterns that solve...
Some of Gemini's pictures of East Africa and the Middle East gave geologists a broad overview of rift-valley systems produced by faulting in the earth's crust. Other pictures, each encompassing hundreds of square miles, will be useful to oceanographers studying ocean depths, underwater formations and ice floes. By taking selective color shots, Gemini did far better than the Tiros weather satellites, which photograph indiscriminately and only in black and white...
Fowler is an adept negotiator who prepares for every task with compulsive thoroughness. He can be simultaneously friendly and cautious, has a disarming sense of humor. He also possesses a broad, basic background in all areas of the U.S. economy, and a political instinct that has been finely honed during a Washington career of some 32 years, roughly half in Government and half in law practice. He has countless friends in Congress and the business establishment, and he has the ear of Lyndon Johnson, who can hardly find enough adjectives to express his admiration: "He's prudent, careful, able, loyal...