Word: mainstreamers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mainstream. Near Los Angeles, Douglas Aircraft has built a multimillion-dollar space-systems facility off Interstate 405 (the San Diego Freeway), plans to build all its new facilities near the expressway so that it can easily move personnel and material from plant to plant. Chrysler's decision to build a $50 million auto plant near remote Belvidere, Ill. (pop. 11,200), was strongly influenced by the proximity of 1-90, which connects it with Chicago and still allows quick access to the big Chrysler parts plants in Michigan...
...miles of southern Michigan, five shopping centers, 19 motels and 39 restaurants have been built around the road's 130 interchanges. The case of Valdosta, Ga. (pop. 32,700), is typical: when a section of I-75 opened three years ago, the city found itself in the mainstream of Atlanta-Miami traffic, ever since has enjoyed a tourist boom that has created new jobs in motels, restaurants and gas stations...
Most affected, therefore, will be the outdoor advertising industry-and the proprietors of restaurants, motels, and other transient-dependent businesses that happen to lie away from the mainstream of traffic. Lady Bird's bill governing junkyards calls for the elimination or screening off of such ugliness within 1,000 feet of federal highways or primary roadways. It is a case where the battle between beauty and need (the U.S. junked 6,100,000 cars last year) again resulted in compromise...
...Latin America's Protestants range from century-old "mainstream" Reformation churches founded by European emigrants (such as the Lutherans) to zealous new Pentecostal sects, which now account for at least one-third of the continent's Protestant population. Typical of these younger churchlets is Argentina's fundamentalist Union of the Assemblies of God, which has grown from 400 to 6,500 since 1948, now has 142 preaching centers scattered throughout the country. Its members are baptized by immersion, thrive on strongly Biblical sermons, give 10% of their substance to help pay for preaching on radio and television...
...year of churning unrest on U.S. campuses, an old issue flamed anew at two large universities: whether college students should be allowed to hear Communists or other speakers whose politics range far from the U.S. mainstream...