Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their watches set ten minutes ahead of time-"Lombardi time.'' they call it. He still works 70 hours a week, still gets so wrapped up in his football thoughts that he sometimes misses his street on the drive home from the stadium and winds up on the highway to Milwaukee. "I don't think Vince was ever a child," says Marie Lombardi. "I think he was born conscientious.'' On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, while he is absorbed in the task of preparing the Packers for their next game, ''we don't talk...
...playing the role of the jolly fat man, Ohio Democrat Mike Di Salle helped make himself a political success. But after he was elected Governor in 1958, Di Salle got serious. He wanted to be remembered as the man who had wrought great improvements in his state's highway, education and mental-health programs. Instead, he was criticized for raising taxes by $310 million. Di Salle brooded over his misfortune, then got mad. In so doing he committed political suicide...
Seaton wore tailored suits, had spent a lot of time in the effete East-meaning, Washington, D.C.-as Dwight Eisenhower's Interior Secretary. He came out for a more costly teacher-retirement program, increased funds for the University of Nebraska, a stepped-up highway construction plan. Morrison, a scuffed-shoes-and-red-galluses sort of fellow, made fun of the Kennedy Administration, declined to let New Frontier Democrats come into the state to campaign for him, insisted that Seaton's programs would require a 40% increase in the state's property tax. Nebraska Republicans decided that Democrat...
Love, making his first try for elective office, faced Democratic Governor Steve McNichols, who had an impressive record of school and highway construction, high employment and industrial development. But McNichols' achievements came at the cost of an unpopular increase in state income taxes. Love struck at this McNichols soft spot, promised a tax cut. Love's appearance and personality also helped him upset McNichols. Remarkably handsome in a man's-man way, he became a cracking good extemporaneous speaker, managed to sound persuasive even while remaining a bit vague about his political philosophy...
...ring around the outskirts of Moscow, was begun in 1956 and completed two years before the target date with the help of more than 100,000 students, workers and other Muscovites who put in long hours of volunteer labor on weekends. Since this is the first modern divided-lane highway in all Russia, thousands of Muscovites swarmed out on the inaugural day to have a look. Most of the spectators came on foot; the few lucky ones who own cars excitedly opened them up to the maximum 80 m.p.h., unmindful of the washboard ripples and wavy indentations on the brand...