Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CITY HALL IS AT Government Center, a short walk from the Park Street subway station, just past the movie theatre where the Beatles' movies come to town. It is a strange-looking building with two big cement eyes which stare out at passing citizens. Strange, but appropriate, for when you look around at the other buildings, it is almost frightening how sterile and monstrous they are. The John F. Kennedy Federal Building, where you go to get your passport, and where the Internal Revenue Service gobbles up your money, stretches up much higher than City Hall in row after...
...builders in the Executive Branch. Therefore it would have seemed only equitable to have appointed a city planner, or at least someone familiar with urban problems, to the post of Highway Administrator. But Turner is, in the words of one high official of the Johnson administration, "one of the cement pourers," and enjoys the reputation of being a captive of the highway lobbies. For planning roads in Colorado or Wyoming, Turner is fine; he is a competent engineer and has been with the Bureau of Public Roads since 1929. But to design roads which cut through congested urban areas...
Turner, whom a former member of the Johnson administration called "one of the cement-pourers," replaces Lowell K. Bridwell. Bridwell had the reputation of being a friend of cities like Cambridge, which have been fighting urban highway plans for years...
American Seabees opened two bridges across the river to one-way traffic. U.S. and Vietnamese army engineers advised citizens on how to rebuild or repair their homes. The government pitched in with $85 allowances, the Americans with metal sheeting and cement to anyone who wanted to replace his lost home. Hospitals, schools, pagodas and churches were given priority for restoration. By Christmas the Phu Cam cathedral, partly destroyed in the battle, was reopened for Mass. Hué's isolation eased last month when rail service to Danang, 75 miles to the south, was restored...
Prayer, head grizzled, and the sweat, To the gray cement, dropped...