Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Irate Congressmen. Instead, Frome preferred to play it tough and tendentious. He criticized timber companies, highway builders and strip miners. Frequently he used his column to lobby against legislation that might be potentially destructive to the environment. One of his notable victories came in 1970, when he helped defeat a bill which would have given timber cutting priority over recreational and other uses for national forests...
...second "conservation" option would aim at reducing the growth of energy use by such methods as enforcing national highway speed limits and standards for auto gas mileage; establishing national lighting standards and offering incentives such as lower fares and parking surcharges to get people to ride mass transit. Despite President Ford's stress on voluntary energy saving, the FEA experts argue that in order to be effective, many conservation measures would have to be mandatory...
...hell broke loose at Kennedy International Airport. This time the perpetrator was not a freaked-out Fischer but a small boy who discovered the skittish grand master hiding in an airport bar and led a charge of newsmen to the scene. Bobby bolted out the door, across a highway and vanished into the gloom. His handlers meanwhile, fending off the reporters with kicks and body blocks, were approached by a cop who got right to the heart of the matter. "Who," he wanted to know, "is Bobby Fischer...
...Truman Library, a few miles to the north of Interstate 70, is on Route 24, one of those now typical four-lane highways which take dreary second place to limited-access throughways. New motels, advertising their accessibility to the library, cluster near interstate exists--Hilton, Sheraton, Ramada, Howard Johnson, Travel Lodge, and Holiday Inn. As one leaves the throughway and approaches The Truman Library, Route 24 is lined with used car lots, supermarkets, gas stations, fast food stores, retail outlets, and light industry. The library and the pleasant municipal park across the highway make a striking contrast...
...library and the museum are in a low stone building set back from the reconstructed village, accessible yet surprisingly in no way insistent or obtrusively out of character. Since highway signs direct one only to "The Hoover Library," the village at the Historic Site comes as a happy dividend and adds a new dimension to the museum aspect of a presidential facility...