Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...part of its six-year, $700 million highway safety bill, the Administration requested discretionary authority to establish automobile safety standards-and fully expected Congress to balk. As it turned out, Congressmen complained that the Administration had not gone sufficiently far or fast. Senator Abraham Ribicoff, a stern evangelist of traffic safety when he was Governor of Connecticut, urged that the Administration should be required, not authorized, to set safety standards, adding that in any case they could not be incorporated until the 1970 models. Asked Ribicoff: "Are we going to watch 50 million new cars roll off the assembly lines...
...businessman may want to rush to California in five hours and yet wait patiently for a delayed jet takeoff. A scientist may bolt instant coffee at a hurried breakfast and then spend a day of slow, painstaking research in his laboratory. Americans love speed and power on the highway, but they are the most disciplined drivers in the world. While the French, Italian or German driver burns out his batteries with his horn and uses his car as an instrument of vengeance ("In Germany," says one psychoanalyst, "anger is a status symbol"), the American knows that he must drive...
...little town of St. George, which likes to boast that "this is where the sun spends the winter," sits astride U.S. Highway 91 in southwestern Utah-and directly in the path of southwest winds blowing from the AEC's Nevada test site for underground atomic explosions, 140 miles away. Time and again since 1952, much of Utah, and especially St. George, has been showered with at least 100 and perhaps 1,000 times more radioactivity than the U.S. average. One of the most active elements in the fallout has been iodine-131, which gets into grass, then into cows...
...shows, begin free trade in a few commodities. Headquarters for the $1 billion Asian Development Bank, aimed at financing such sinews as power, railroads and industry, is rising in Manila; the bank hopes to open by summer. Within two to four years, a 7,000-mi. all-weather Asian highway is expected to link Teheran and Singapore. A road of sorts is 96% completed now, and in the dry season, adventurous motorists can attempt the trip from Iran to Dacca in East Pakistan...
...State Department for Public Works announced on Tuesday that it has selected Brookline-Eim St. route for the proposed highway...