Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bipartisan effort." If that also fails, the nation's most heavily industrialized state will be unable to provide college space for several thousand new high school graduates or treat more than 1,000 retarded children now awaiting state care. It will have to defer badly needed highway construction, and deny the financial aid that its two major railroads need to maintain commuter service...
THAT most typical product of American civilization-1 the auto-brings joy, jobs, mobility, freedom. It also brings economic waste and human pain. Death and destruction on the highway are now the subject of muckraking books, rock-'n'-roll ballads, congressional inquiry, and serious self-examination in Detroit. The auto represents power, speed and progress-and each of these elements involves risk. As long as men move, there will be accidents. But need there be so much human cost? Clearly the answer...
...immunize passengers against trauma and grave injury when accidents do occur. With effort and purpose, the nation could cut the traffic toll almost as sharply and effectively as it did smallpox and polio. In dozens of laboratories in Detroit, and on campuses from Harvard to U.C.L.A., engineers, statisticians, highway designers, and psychologists are working toward the goal of "delethalization...
Crane suggested that the Council work through Rep. Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. (D-Camb.) and the Massachusetts Senators to get the federal government -- which will pay 90 per cent of the highway's costs -- to abandon a Cambridge link. He called for an appeal to President Johnson if it proved necessary...
Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci made the proposal yesterday to hire engineering consultants for a study of a Memorial Drive route. He insisted that the City be prepared with a new alternate route if a current federal study of the highway eventually supports the state Department of Public Works' selection of Brookline...