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...failure showing it could be done. T.R. knew the time was ripe. Soil conservation was a science long before Franklin Roosevelt lifted it to the top of the national agenda and we began to heal the washed and windblown land. Ike grasped the importance of a huge interstate highway system. His endorsement helped push 23,500 miles of superhighways across the country in a decade...
...Charleston dig, on the site of a future highway, has yielded valuable new evidence about 17th century living, experts said yesterday...
...Because vans burn a lot of gas, sales fell by about 60% after the cost of oil surged in 1979, but they are rising again now that the prices at the pump are falling.A major selling point for the Voyager/Caravan will be the 39 m.p.g. it gets on the highway, compared with 25 m.p.g. for a standard...
...wheel-drive vehicles (airlifted from Washington) to meet the Queen, who had taken a Navy bus to Long Beach airport and caught Air Force Two to Santa Barbara. Warned that the Queen's plane was late, the presidential motorcade stopped in its tracks for 19 minutes under a highway overpass. The President's advisers reckoned this was preferable to hanging about an airplane hangar. Reagan got out to stretch...
...homosexual hairdresser, a widow in need of consolation, a judge, an arms manufacturer and an aging opera singer heading for a small role in the provinces. Some know, some suspect, some do not particularly care who is in the coach ahead. Some will have turned off history's highway to pursue their private byways before the royal flight is arrested at Varennes. A few will be present when the decree ordering the royal family to return to Paris (and eventually the guillotine) is read out to them. All they will see of that historic moment will be the King...