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...oasis on Interstate 95 with two picnic tables and a red-brick colonial toilet. "Virginia highways are the cleanest and least cluttered in the nation," boasted Virginia's Governor Albertis Harrison Jr. as Lady Bird dedicated the site, first roadside rest area to be financed under the interstate expressway program...
Along the Toledo-Detroit expressway, four people were killed and eight others injured when the bus in which they were riding was spun over onto its roof. The tornado charged into a small housing development, flattened 25 homes, killed six people...
...city by a freeway carried on 22-ft.-high pillars. U.S. Senator Hugh Scott (Republican) claims "it desecrates the city's grand design." In agreement are Senator Joseph Clark (Democrat) and Mayor James H. J. Tate. Instead, they propose spending whatever funds are necessary to tunnel the expressway under the area, even though the aboveground one-mile segment as now planned will cost an estimated $35 million. But this is the kind of issue on which honest men may honestly differ. Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Chief Edmund Bacon (TIME cover, Nov. 6), who is as much concerned with...
...Yorkers are all too familiar. Articles have appeared on blighted schools and hospitals; on urban renewal, which is administered so haphazardly that some people do not know from one day to the next whether they will be allowed to stay in their homes; on the long-debated Lower Manhattan Expressway, which has been hanging fire since 1941. "This series demonstrates," says Managing Editor Murray M. Weiss, "that the city has lost touch with the people...
...This is the climax. It will be the most expensive highway. It will displace more people. Picture in your mind an eight-lane expressway running through the city, blighting everything on either side...