Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Congress passed legislation recommending that the states adopt a 55 m.p.h. speed limit as a means of curbing gasoline consumption, most observers predicted an additional boon - a decrease in traffic fatalities. Sure enough, last month when the National Safety Council released highway-death-toll figures for the first six months in 1974, deaths were down a heartening 23% from the same period in 1973. While noting that the energy crisis had decreased the number of cars on the road, the council still gave credit for the downturn to the 55-m.p.h. speed limit, calling it a "major contributing factor...
...that was moving too fast for Lee N. Hames, safety-education director of the American Medical Association. In an editorial in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, Hames doubts that the reduced speed limit deserved quite so much credit, arguing that the energy shortage had reduced the number of miles driven. Besides, said Hames, "most crashes occur at speeds of less than 55 m.p.h. anyway...
...billboard lobby, Wright has proposed several "beautification" amendments to the 1974 Highway Construction Act that take the teeth out of earlier legislation. The 1965 law prohibited signs within 660 feet of the right of way. Advertisers responded nimbly by placing jumbo signs just beyond the 660-ft. limit; they were even more unsightly than the smaller signs adjacent to the road. To counter this violation of the spirit of the law, the Senate Public Works Committee recently reported out a bill extending the ban to the Limits of legibility. The amended House version, however, provides for control of signs beyond...
...pursue the investigation into Mexico. A tape transcript of a conversation with Haldeman (released last week in the move that finally forces Nixon's resignation) shows that Nixon hopes to hide White House and C.R.P. involvement in the break-in by getting the CIA to limit the FBI's activities. Nixon's personal attorney Herbert Kamibach gets $75,000 from Maurice Stans, chairman of the Finance Committee to Re-Elect the President-the first of more than $400,000 distributed to the Watergate defendants and their lawyers...
Deputy Director Walters then reported back to Mr. Gray that they would not be compromised. On July 6, when I called Mr. Gray, and when he expressed concern about improper attempts to limit his investigation, as the record shows, I told him to press ahead vigorously with his investigation--which...