Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mississippi Highway Patrol yesterday arrested 45 students who had been the Pike County Courthouse days. Mississippi officials filed charges against them and set or date for their arraignment. of the demonstrators are Mississippi high-school students under 13. They decided to picket after the MFDP at which Glen Fortenberry, of Pike County, refused to take test which he administers. were protesting the all-white review board and the use of this test...
...students under 18 were released to their parents, but the COFO workers were transferred to the Hinds County jail in Jackson City, 100 miles from where they were arrested. The Highway Patrol gave no reason for their transfer...
...Highway. Landscaping, said the President, should be required on all federal, interstate, primary and urban highways, "encouraging the construction of rest and recreation areas . . . and the preservation of natural beauty adjacent to highway rights-of-way." This means more restriction, for one thing, on outdoor advertising, for which Johnson plans to recommend more effective legislation to replace the present regulations, which expire in June. Also in for a sharp crackdown is a pet Johnsonian peeve-"unsightly, beauty-destroying junkyards and auto graveyards along our highways...
...strike: not only the 60,000 striking longshoremen, but 38,000 seamen and other maritime workers, 45,000 railroadmen, 48,000 truckers. With 855 ships tied up, U.S. ocean shippers were deprived of 161 million tons of freight. The nation's strangled lines of trade also cost highway carriers 9,000,000 tons of business, railways 7,000,000 tons, and inland waterways 500,000. With exports off by $60 million a day and imports off by $40 million, every day of the strike wiped out $20 million of the U.S. foreign-trade surplus...
Growing pressure from the Government and an increasing number of state laws have made the safety belt as common on the highway as in the air. Last year 18 million auto seat belts were in use in the U.S., compared with only 8,000,000 in 1962. Detroit's 1964 autos were the first to include safety belts as standard equipment in the front seats of all new models. Last week Ford, Chrysler and American Motors decided to go all the way and give back-seat drivers the same buckled-in protection. The three firms announced that lap belts...