Word: modeler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Freight pays more than passengers these days, and freight handling is the railroads' biggest business - a subject on which Davidson is a home expert. His family playroom in Manhasset, L.I., is monopolized by a vast and ever-expanding model-train layout, on which he and his children vie for time at the controls. "We have all freight cars - no passenger cars," he says proudly. "It's a very modern railroad...
...billion authorization for the model cities program, which got only $312 million last year, "to rebuild the centers of American cities...
Tight Budget. Compared with the vast Johnsonian programs of the past, it was pretty tame stuff. At that, even such proposals as model cities and housing are unlikely to get the funds the President wants. He described his budget as a "tight" one, though it calls for an increase in outlays from $175.6 billion to $186 billion.* Most of the $10.4 billion increase will, in fact, go for defense costs and mandatory increases in such programs as social security, aid to farmers and veterans, Medicare...
...well over $12 billion a year, and there is no question that the U.S. desperately needs a highly effective auto-insurance system that would compensate traffic victims rapidly, fairly and at reasonable cost to policyholders. But there is no question, either, that the U.S. auto-insurance system is a model of expensive inefficiency. The country's 103 million drivers have every reason to complain...
...harder it tries, the larger the dangers are likely to become. In attempting a little political sophistication, in taking a quasi-French model, the local leaders are prone to become impatient with Adzope's "Africanness," and to toss out many of the traditions. Putting on a Western face, this attitude is tending to make many of its young people uneasy about their own background. But the new system is still a fragile organism, and it may not be able to stand the strain if the traditional culture is toppled...