Word: rail
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automobile and its rail-less track became an autocrat and a sacred cow; no one dared stand in its way. Family homesteads, a town's ancient elms, historic monuments were sacrificed to spare the passing motorist a few minutes' delay. Bypasses and underpasses and overpasses snaked through and around the cities. Some of the results were beautiful as well as functional; some were just functional. In Trinidad. Colo., for example, through travelers on U.S. Highway 85 used to drive down curving Commercial Street, make a right-angle turn at Main Street, then inch their way out of town...
...Reception Center until Oct. 9 and then is expected to go to other U. S. cities, brings the Soviet-created Berlin crisis into vivid and frequently dramatic close-up focus. A large turntable rotates an illuminated color map of the divided city. Animated lighting depicts its air, waterway, rail and highway routes to the free world. Large panels of photographs show facets of life in West Berlin. Motion pictures catch the excitement of recent events: the cheers of welcome to Vice President Lyndon Johnson and to U.S. troop reinforcements; the erection of sections of the 25-mile wall; the flight...
...casting by the director of a western movie. At the mile-high, five-furlong race track near Ruidoso, N. Mex., wizened Texas cowpokes in shrunken Levi's clutched $100 bills while they hunted for the parimutuel windows. Dark-faced Apache youths in blue jeans lined up along the rail reading their racing forms. Oklahoma oilmen in neatly tailored riding pants shared tacos and tamales with their Dior dressed wives. Track police sported Stetsons and packed six-guns, consciously copying the deputy marshals who ruled the tiny (pop. 2,500) town in the bad old days when Billy...
...five years that he was president of the hapless New Haven Railroad, Boston Attorney George Alpert moved up and down the land preaching that only Government subsidies could save the nation's railroad passenger operations from extinction. The Interstate Commerce Commission, historically opposed to rail subsidies, pretended not to hear. But last week, with the New Haven in bankruptcy and Alpert back at lawyering, the ICC did a roundhouse turn. After a year-long study of the New Haven and its pyramiding deficits, the commission decided that subsidies might indeed be the answer. Testifying before a Senate Commerce subcommittee...
Insisting that what it would really like to see would be reduced subsidies for the railroads' competitors, the ICC argued that this could not be accomplished in time to save the railroads. The rail subsidy, claimed the commission, would serve only as a stopgap measure until the day when subsidies could be trimmed all around to equalize competition for everybody in the business of moving people. This had a plausible ring, but even those who favored the ICC plan found it difficult to believe that railroad handouts, once begun, would ever...