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...efficiency and safety. While one lane of a freeway can move only 2,400 persons an hour past a given point, a train can move 30,000. To encourage a revival of mass transit by rail, the Government gave the movement a nudge in 1961 with a law that henceforward mass transportation must be considered a part of city planning. With close to $200 million of loans and grants, Washington has since helped to finance new equipment and several experiments which indicate that better service and modern equipment will lure at least some drivers back to public conveyances. San Francisco...
Back in Washington, the President greeted visiting Bolivian President Victor Paz Estenssoro on the White House south lawn (see THE HEMISPHERE). In a speech before the National Academy of Sciences he promised that henceforward the Government would explain in advance its major scientific experiments in order to "assure expert review before potentially risky experiments are undertaken...
...order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free...
Centuries of Bad Dreams. Later that same year, at Mainz, De Gaulle declared: "We proceed from the same race; we are Europeans, men of the West. How many reasons for us to stand by one another henceforward!" In another speech at Koblenz, he added: "Time will go by and wounds will be healed, but the wounds are deep and the healing time will be long." At a gala gathering in Freiburg, De Gaulle summed up his thoughts...
...week when the French Assembly proved again its willful capacity for chaos, French justice also came in for well-deserved attack. "What is wrong with our justice?" demanded France Dimanche. "Henceforward," added Paris' Paris-Presse, "it is hard to see how we can have the nerve to give lessons to totalitarian police...