Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olson, and until her death last week of a heart attack at the age of 74, very few people had ever seen her in person, although millions know her from Wyeth's work. A reclusive spinster who lived in a weatherbeaten grey homestead in Cushing, Me., up the road a piece from the house in which Wyeth and his family have summered for many years, Christina Olson was severely crippled by polio in childhood. Nonetheless, she supported herself for most of her life as a seamstress, earned a local reputation as a fine cook. She was so fiercely independent...
Test by Trials. By following the same procedure, highway police can get the speed of approaching cars. If the patrolman has measured and locked in the distance between two fixed points in advance, he can park unobtrusively off the road, clock the speed of motorists simply by turning the timer on and off as they go past. Already in use in 14 states and now being evaluated by 33 others, VASCAR, which was invented by Arthur M. Marshall, a Richmond real estate agent and lifelong tinkerer, will soon come out in a more sophisticated form, with a digital computer...
...Federal Roads Commissioner Lowell K. Bridwell agreed to allow a two-part review of the Belt. A six-month "feasibility" study will decide if the $300 million highway is still needed. A concurrent "joint development" plan will try to find ways to use the Model Cities and other federal programs to cushion the blow to the City if the road is built...
Bridwell announced the outline of the compromise in Washington after a four hour meeting with the City Council and the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (DPW). The Council was pushing a more extensive review of the Belt, while the DPW "wanted a road and wanted it right away," as Cambridge City Councillor Daniel J. Hayes...
...there were a promise path to peace, our predecessors would have walked it sprightly, many years ago. Will now a generation participate individually, collectively, doggedly, creatively, not merely in the doing, but in the discovery of how to do? Will they not only walk the road toward peace, but with fifty or one-hundred nations together find the road: through misunderstanding and economic backwardness, imperfect agencies abroad and imperfect agencies at home? Precisely because the path is cloudy, not merely with Vietnam but with major violence in 55 nations of the world since World War II, 15,000 Volunteers...