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...scene were kept busy. Although more than 600,000 people poured into the area before the festival ended, Watkins Glen proved by and large a very orderly, even sedate trip. There was little nudity and few medevacs. Campers gave wooded areas "street" names like Big Pink Lane and Hippie Highway. The show's promoters, after inundating newspapers and radio stations with advance publicity; announced days before the opening that the event was sold out. The unintended result was that even more people were attracted. "Woodstock was different," explained the festival's stage manager, Rock Impresario Bill Graham. "This...
Since Congress established the Federal Highway Trust Fund in 1956, the Government has spent $40.1 billion to build the 34,000-mile network of interstate highways. Because the highway fund, now $5.5 billion, keeps accumulating new money from federal taxes on gas and tire sales, it can theoretically finance new highway building until the country is paved over. At least some of this money, urban experts argue, should be spent on financially hard-pressed railroads and mass-transit systems, but despite Administration approval of the idea, the highway builders vehemently oppose any diversion of funds. Last year the two forces...
...forces have scored what they consider a significant breakthrough. The bill, which is expected to be approved by Congress this week, provides for spending $20 billion over the next three years and preserves the trust fund inviolate through fiscal 1974. But beginning the following year, a portion of the highway fund will be freed for mass transit. In fiscal 1975, $200 million will be available to metropolitan transit systems exclusively for the purchase of buses. In 1976 cities will have the option of spending $800 million on mass transit, including rail systems...
...Egyptian president reacted quickly. According to one account, Egyptian officials rolled a train across the highway at a crossing about 400 miles west of Cairo. There, the march ended. Libyans began flowing back toward their border, while a token delegation reportedly was being flown to Cairo to press their cause. With the merger scheduled to take place in just six weeks, Gaddafi's next move was anybody's guess...
...steel barrels at a price of $2 each, and the citizens must rely on make-shift ditches and out-houses to supply their plumbing needs. When it rains, the community's streets simply become impassable, and the townspeople must wade in to their homes from the farm-to-market highway that runs through the center of town. It is nearly 25 miles to Houston's Ben Taub Hospital, but there are no public transportation lines that serve Bordersville. Most of the working-age people in Bordersville are unemployed, and most families are on welfare. Local employment is almost non-existent...