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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRAFFIC. To speed subway travel, he proposed construction of several new lines, triple-tracking, and staggered working hours for New Yorkers. As for auto traffic, he suggested expansion of cross-town express routes, priority lanes for busses and trucks, more municipal parking facilities, and relocation of the city's cargo docks so that freight-laden trucks would no longer burden Manhattan streets...
...Robert A. Geyer, associate professor of Nutrition, the chase began at about 3 a.m. Tuesday when these monkeys apparently pushed out the wire screen covering one side of their wooden crate. They were soon swinging on the rafters and pipes in the attic of the one-story Railway Air Express Terminal...
...Kicking Tires. Unlike the auto industry, in which buyers crowd into showrooms to kick tires and slam doors, the truckmakers rely on aggressive bell-ringing salesmanship. The fleet owners, the largest of which are A.T. & T., Hertz and REA Express, account for 30% of all sales. They care less about chrome than about axle ratios and operating costs, unlike auto buyers insist on vehicles that will easily run 400,000 miles without major overhaul. All the salesmen's calls and painstaking demonstrations for show-me truckers are worth the effort, however. Depending on optional equipment, truck sales...
Also for Veterinarians. Some 70 U.S. banks now have their own credit cards. The lure: big profits. American Express credit-card sales rose 40% last year to $340 million; Diners' Club rose 28% to $210 million. This rapid growth has, in fact, attracted far more than the banks. Dozens of new credit-card plans, ranging from neighborhood to countrywide, are popping up across the U.S. California's Transamerica Credit Corp. issues cards for individual shopping centers that enable the shopper to gas up her car, buy in a wide variety of shops, eat lunch and have her hair...
...belief that our inaction might seriously harm a Program to which we felt a moral obligation: not by "(anticipation of) the harassment (protest) might entail," but by the reasoned judgment that renouncing our awards and insulting the President was an inappropriate, fruitless, and irresponsible way to express our political views. Amory B. Lovins...