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Maine to Mexico? The new highway-skirting Akron, Cleveland and Toledo-connects the Pennsylvania Turnpike with the one now being built across northern Indiana. By next fall motorists and truckers will be able to drive 812 miles, from Manhattan to Chicago's outskirts, without running into a single traffic light or crossroad. Total toll charges...
Overall, in 22 states, a network of toll roads built or planned is now webbing fast across a vast segment of the U.S. from Northeast to Southwest. In 1950 all U.S. toll roads together ran to only 439 miles. The total has since expanded enormously; as of this week 1,712 miles are in use, 1,527 under construction and 5,622 more planned. Total cost: $10.7 billion, repayable by road users directly at no cost to taxpayers generally. By 1965, highway experts predict, motorists will be riding nonstop-for a price-on turnpikes from Chicago to Miami, from...
...territory. It was no surprise to the University of Alaska's commencement audience last year that he should choose as his theme: "Be Bold." Ernest Newton Patty had been one of the original 1922 faculty at the struggling new campus. He had been dean of the college, had built up the mining school into one of the best in North America. After 19 prosperous years as a Seattle mining engineer, he was back at his old school to urge more "bold planning in the years ahead to develop this university to the point where it is giving maximum service...
President Patty hopes to have a third community college in Juneau. He has built a $600,000 student union, will soon open a new dormitory for married students, a new library, new research and classroom buildings. He has strengthened his department of education to help Alaska overcome its teacher shortage, is expanding the department of business administration. Eventually, says Patty, the campus will be such that no visitor to the territory will ever be able to get away without some proud Alaskan saying: "Be sure to visit our university...
...Demonstrating the spectacular sleight of hand that seems built-in in all Notre Dame quarterbacks, Paul Hornung led the Irish to a 19-0 victory over the stubborn Hoosiers of Indiana...