Word: highway
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...each campaign stop the GOP "Volpe--An Experienced Governor." candidate hammers away at the two "gut" issues of experience and clean government. Bellotti's first office is his present one, the Lieutenant-Governorship, while Volpe has served as Commissioner of Public Works "scandal-free years," he says), Federal Highway Administrator, and of course, Governor. He also boasts years of administrative experience as president of the large building firm he founded, the John A. Volpe Construction Company...
...Hogwash." The appeal was brought before the Supreme Court last week by the Heart of Atlanta Motel from an adverse ruling by a three-judge lower federal court. Title II requires the motel to serve Negroes, said that court, because it fronts on an interstate highway, welcomes white transients, advertises in national magazines and gets 75% of its guests from outside Georgia...
...There is no way of saying that an interstate traveler has ever been served at Ollie's," said Birmingham Lawyer Robert Smith. Ollie's does no advertising, seeks no transients, is eleven blocks away from the nearest interstate highway and buys most of its meat from a packing plant in Birmingham (though the plant gets the meat from outside Alabama). If Title II forced Ollie's to serve Negroes, said Smith, the result "would convert the commerce clause into a general welfare power under which Congress could encroach upon personal liberty and property to a degree never...
...harsh contrast to Italy's industrialized north. Now all the old ideas about the south may have to be revised. Last week, with flying banners and ecclesiastical pomp, the Italians opened the last stretch of the 468-mile Milan-to-Salerno Autostrada del Sole, the first modern highway link between north and south...
Citing the "tremendous loss of homes" that the highway construction would involve, Campbell said in a telephone interview that "someone has to start thinking broadly about this matter." He added that a copy of the letter to Peabody had been sent to Reverend Seavey Joyce, S. J., president of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council...