Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COOPER California Highway Commission Sacramento...
...view of recent statements by President Johnson urging a more beautiful America, it seems more than a little ironic that the Federal highway program is indeed responsible for a large part of the continuing desecration of the American landscape. California, probably the most beautiful state in the Union, is rapidly being ruined beyond all redemption by freeways. Here on the Peninsula, they are busy blasting the way for an eight-lane freeway. This monstrous road will cut through a scenery of hills and lakes that has been compared to the Lake District in England or Killarney in Ireland. The California...
...United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe recently reported that there are twice as many fatalities per miles driven in Europe as there are in the U.S. In 1963, 80,000 Europeans were killed on the road; with twice as much traffic, the U.S. had only 43,400 highway deaths. Concluded the commission: "For the most part, these differences can only be explained by better driving by the people who use the roads...
...outside Manhattan's Coliseum. The occasion was the Ninth Annual International Auto Show, and the doctors were doing their bit to urge more safety features in autos. The demonstration was just one more in a growing chorus of demands that Detroit do something both to curb the rising highway accident toll and to cut down its annual contribution of 92 million tons of carbon monoxide to air pollution...
...industry is also considering such ideas as wiper blades for headlights, autoguide devices on the front bumper that pick up signals from the highway's shoulder and guide the car, and G.M.'s completely automatic highway. But the automakers are in no hurry to rush new safety equipment to the market, and they are unlikely to move any faster on their own. One reason: installation of all the safety options already available would add $1,000 to the cost of the average...