Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaningful to her. The 182-ft.first stage of the Saturn I is "three feet taller than the White House," its thrust is "equal to the power required to drive 100,000 Cadillacs," and the concrete in a 400-ft.-high test stand "would be sufficient to build a four-lane highway from Dallas to Fort Worth." Said Lady Bird: "Thank you for putting it into words I can almost understand...
...That night Mrs. Johnnie Mae Chappell, a Negro housewife with nine children, was walking along U.S. Highway 1 outside Jacksonville, her arms laden with grocery sacks. She dropped her purse, and as she bent to retrieve it, a car roared by; shots rang out, and Mrs. Chappell fell dead. Carlos Gonzales, standing outside a nearby bar, was shot in the head at the same time. Before dawn, a dozen buildings were fire-bombed by rampaging Negro youths, and cops found themselves using a new emergency radio call: "516," meaning "juveniles with incendiaries...
...must have flown it in," marveled a California highway patrolman. "You can't drive in there." The crumpled silver-grey Ferrari was wedged between the pines in a canyon in California's High Sierras, where Singer Vic Damone, 35, crash-landed after skidding on a patch of snowy pavement. The car was a total wreck, but Damone and Wife Judy escaped with only minor dents. Alas, Groaner Damone had bought the Italian sports car only five hours earlier for $15,000, which is about what he earned during a ten-day engagement at the Reno nightclub owned...
...Their power is now so vast," he continued, "That once they have built their super highway in a wrong place--as they propose to do in Cambridge--no amount of urban design, however inspired can possibly erase that mistake...
Transportation problems must be solved, Blake said, through coordinated planning among different highway-building bureaus and other transit agencies. Such cooperation is not wide spread today, he noted. He emphasized, however, that all transportation solutions must be tailored to the overall priorities of urban design...