Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...test not only rated, it educated. Putting the audience in the driver's seat, it dramatized highway dilemmas, posed questions ("Pumping the brakes shortens the stopping distance. True or false?"), then gave answers. The results were not surprising: rated against a preprogram sampling, 42% of those who took the driving test failed it; 53%, for example, were unaware that pumping the brakes means longer stopping distance. The show got fourth highest rating of the season and, predictably, started a television trend. It is called the "audience involvement" program...
...been intimately involved with the planned NASA elec- tronics laboratory in Kendall Square, and that he was adequately prepared to meet other items mentioned by the Council: the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library, the Wellington-Harrington urban renewal project in East Cambridge, and the proposed Inner Belt highway...
Distracted by its own political feuding, the Cambridge City Council has let its opposition to the projected Inner Belt highway Virtually evaporate...
...late December, the DPW delayed announcing the Belt route to allow the City to come up with an alternative to the Brookline-Elm St. Path. Traffic consultants for Cambridge have been working for the past six weeks on a design for the highway that would run along the right-of-way of railroad tracks in East Cambridge...
...deterrent effect amounts to is something else again. Far from cloaking the new COC in secrecy, the Air Force seems bent on letting the world in on its every detail. This week's press tours include many foreigners. A large sign has been erected beside a highway near Cheyenne Mountain blatantly informing motorists that they are approaching the heart of North America's air-defense system. The message to trigger-happy aggressors should be as obvious as that roadside sign: NORAD's invulnerable new mountain of preparedness guards some of the most impressive products of modern science...