Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Highway Stress. ECG changes in patients with known heart disorders were more puzzling and in some cases downright alarming, reported Dr. Thomas Killip III. A man of 20 who had no evidence of clear-cut heart disease had complained for years of occasional palpitations and extra heartbeats, even at rest. While wearing his ECG recorder he drove from New York to Princeton. What appeared to the cardiologists as dangerous bouts of nonrhythmic ventricular action occurred while the man was apparently unaware of them and doing 60 m.p.h. or more on the New Jersey Turnpike. He is now on digitalis, said...
...technical innovations such as the collapsible steering column be installed as soon as they are developed. Then foot-dragging on features such as seat belts would not occur again. And with federal regulation, the public will no longer have to depend on showmen such as Mr. Nader to enforce highway safety...
...Patrick Vincent McNamara, 71, Michigan's Democratic U.S. Senator since 1955, a genial Irishman who became president of a Detroit pipe fitters' local in 1933, then fell into big-time politics, eventually winning a Senate seat, where he concentrated on care for the aged, labor-management relations, highway development and from 1963 the chairmanship of the Public Works Committee; after a stroke; in Bethesda Naval Hospital...
...hubbub continued. Detroit scrapped its proposal that car safety standards could best be set by the automakers themselves through a voluntary-action program. That plan had pleased no one-least of all President Johnson, who two weeks ago blasted Detroit for its "picayunish" objections to the Administration's highway-safety bill...
...that the opposition will fail seems probable. The opponents, who have banded together in a "Save Our City" committee, seek to raise $100,000 to finance a highway study that they hope will show that the Belt is either unneeded or ill-planned. In addition, they seek to mobilize popular support against the highway. Doing either of these things will be difficult, but even if it does succeed, the prospect of the Inner Belt's being scrapped remains slim. One must reckon with the facts: both state and federal highway officials are highly committed to the road; Gov. John...