Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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John A. Volpe, Governor of Massachusetts, has asked President Johnson to consider overturning the order that froze federal funds for highway construction...
...letter to the President, the Republican governor said that the fund freeze would bring postponement of a dozen highway projects in the state totaling $71 million...
...town for hundreds of thousands of people. Developers must almost always fight for zoning changes. Counties sometimes cannot build schools fast enough to accommodate the influx of people. There are always disputes about who should pay for access roads to the new city. For example, a four-lane highway runs through Reston linking Dulles Airport and Washington. But no one can get on or off at Reston. The Federal government insists that an exit or entrance at Reston would slow down traffic on a road heavily traveled by Government officials and foreign dignitaries...
...most of the facts on the scales, but the guessing game is still going strong. For the current fiscal year, Administration experts figure that spending will run between $127 billion and $130 billion, and revenues around $117 billion. Though Johnson last week squeezed $3.3 billion from such programs as highway construction, hospital-building, and urban development, the deficit could still break the postwar 1959 record of $12 billion. That would seem to point to a hefty tax hike-but another estimate crossed the President's desk last week that pointed in the opposite direction. According to the Commerce Department...
From Harlem to Harvard to Sunset Strip, the U.S. is on a demonstration kick. While collegians march against monogamy or multiversities, their once sedate mothers are mounting the barricades to battle school bussing or stop encroaching highway bulldozers. In one month, Philadelphia alone produced 15 demonstrations against such diverse targets as hard divorce laws, soft rape laws, slum landlords, black power, white power, and the Viet Nam war. Even the Janus Society hit the bricks, indignant because the Navy excludes homosexuals...