Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Down the Highway with L.B.J...
...Donny Reid wants to become a full-fledged President. Under Reid, Castroite terrorism has petered out, food prices are lower, business confidence is returning. Last week the new U.S. ambassador, William Tapley Bennett, brought good news: renewal of a suspended $885,000 aid commitment and a $4,000,000 highway loan. The Dominican Republic is certainly not the showcase democracy that the U.S. once hoped for under Bosch, but at least a forward struggle has at last begun in the melancholy, dictator-tortured republic...
...have thinner treads and inner cores of lower-grade material, and are generally built to less demanding specifications. Are the cheapies safe? The tire manufacturers insist that they are-so long as they are used only for driving about town at moderate speeds and not on constant or long highway trips. Alabama's Democratic Congressman Kenneth Roberts, who is sponsoring the tire bill in Congress, is afraid that most tire buyers do not know this. He wants a law that will make companies say why a cheapie is so cheap...
John B. Lawton Jr., Richard A. Horsley, and William R. Law joined 50 other members of the Massachusetts unit of the SCLC in sit-ins in three restaurants along an inter-state highway. They were arrested and spent three days in jail until they were bailed out on Friday
...literate stylist and then some. His Seawards the Great Ships is a 29-minute color documentary on the shipbuilders of the Clyde in Scotland. He shows, rivet by plate, how ships are built. The picture won an Oscar two years ago. Harris also does shorter, impressionistic pieces. In Highway, he zips up, down, and under Manhattan's West Side Highway by night and day, sketching the rhythm of the roadway until it fairly comes alive. "My main preoccupation in film is with rhythm, and then color," he says. As if to prove it, he will...