Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much to state issues in his triumphant re-election campaign against Richard Nixon, was not about to change now. Brown laced his speech with specific state proposals. They ranged from the removal of some 840.000 low-income persons from the state income tax rolls to the strict control of highway billboards-"When a man throws an empty cigarette package from an automobile, he is liable to a fine of $50; when a man throws a billboard across a view, he is liable to be richly rewarded"-and at least a moratorium on capital punishment. Declared the determined Brown: "I intend...
...jury." Records of two special court sessions, kept secret until the trial's end to avoid prejudice, showed that one prospective juror had reported to Miller a $10,000 bribe offer. Two regular jurors had been disqualified after attempts to influence them-one of them a housewife whose highway-patrolman husband testified he had been offered help in getting a promotion by Ewing King, president of Nashville Teamster Local 327. Miller said he would soon call a grand jury to investigate...
...from behind. My car started to spin and was hit on the right front fender. That spun it back a ways, and it was hit a third time, on the left front fender. It was bouncing around like a rubber ball." The accident-report diagram, said a state highway patrol lieutenant, looked "like somebody took a bunch of dominoes and just threw them down. The cars are pointed every which way. and at least a third of them are pointed back where they came from...
...speed, safety, reliability and cost. Among the possibilities listed in the report: improvement of existing railroad rights-of-way that would provide line-haul running speeds of 100-150 m.p.h.; new railroad rights-of-way or "tubes" to provide speeds of perhaps 200 m.p.h.; electronically controlled auto or bus highway systems; "ground and surface effects machines'"-that is, vehicles that ride on a cushion of air over land or water; improvement of helicopter services and development of VTOL aircraft (vertical take-off-and-landing craft"); and improvement of high-speed hydrofoil boats...
...form to climb back until he again ranked as the No. 1 challenger-but a title fight for a man knocked out so easily seemed far away. Heavyweight Champion Sonny Liston might agree to fight, but would anybody come to see it? Fortnight ago, on a highway near Vallejo, Calif., a state policeman found Machen in a parked car with a loaded gun, muttering about committing suicide. Bundled off to Napa State Hospital, he went berserk, knocked out two attendants. Last week, described by doctors as an "acute schizophrenic," his boxing career apparently at an end, Eddie Machen...