Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressmen who were newly elected in 1964. Biggest upset occurred in the Seventh District (Flint and environs), where Republican Donald W. Riegle Jr., 28, literally quit school?he was working on a business doctorate at Harvard?to take on First-Termer John Mackie, 46, Democratic wheelhorse and longtime state highway commissioner. Riegle, who tirelessly trod city streets and crashed Democratic rallies, buried Mackie...
...Floridian with a deceptive, country-cousin air, Lawyer Boyd comes to the job with impressive professional credentials. A combat pilot with more than 3,000 hours of flying time (World War II and Korea), Boyd served successively on state commissions to improve Florida's aviation, highway and railroad systems. A self-styled "Eisenhower Democrat," he was summoned to Washington by Ike in 1959 to serve on the CAB. After President Kennedy appointed him CAB chairman in 1961, Boyd showed his scrappy independence by voting to deny Boston-based Northeast Airlines' application to fly the competition-clogged New York...
...Jean-Luc, What happens now is that Caution is supposed to kill Von Braun. Which he does. And then he takes the girl away with him to the Outerlands. Which he does. And the whole thing will end with the two of them -- Lemmy and Natasha -- tooling down the highway out of Alphaville with the strings coming up in a crashing crescendo, Which it does...
...third term, Frank D. O'Connor, the Democratic candidate and president of the New York City Council, and Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., the liberal candidate, have toted out a whole litany of big city, big industry problems. The political disputes now include crime in the streets, taxes, public housing, highway construction corruption, education and state finance...
...downtown space for both trucks and private cars. New York, for example, is already considering raising tolls for incoming bridge and tunnel traffic during rush hours. With the new emphasis on national beautification-and the successful citizen protests against ugly bridge and freeway plans in San Francisco and elsewhere-highway engineers also need to learn that transportation systems, as Under Secretary Boyd puts it, "must give a predominant emphasis to esthetics." If the U.S. is to head off its looming transportation crisis, the job has to be started soon. Otherwise, the penalty is sure to be a further erosion...