Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...million under Lindsay's $4.6 billion request. "We have done the best we can," said the weary and wiser mayor. For those who live and work in the city, the pain of higher taxes was at least eased by the prospect that New York was finally on the road to fiscal responsibility...
Save for the road signs and the scrawny pine trees lining the road, the men who took up lames Meredith's protest march (TIME, June 17) could have been anywhere but in Mississippi. State highway patrolmen - from the same force that had walked off the job as mobs howled their hatred for Meredith at the University of Mississippi in 1962 - hovered around like mother hens; highway crews even mowed the high grass on the road shoulders to smooth the marchers' path. For veteran civil rights demonstrators, the atmosphere could hardly have seemed more unreal if the Ku Klux...
...tough an attitude toward the seamen's wage demands in Britain's five-week-old dock strike, and for backing the U.S. in Viet Nam and continuing to maintain Britain's large contingent of troops "east of Suez" in Southeast Asia. A broad middle-of-the-road band of M.P.s chimed in, too, complaining that Wilson had hardly provided the "firm and purposive government" that he had promised. And there was general worry over the continuing weakness of the pound, which has had to be rescued by the world's bankers again (see WORLD BUSINESS...
...crash road-building program, Feisal plans 6,000 miles of new roads by 1970. He is also rebuilding the Hejaz Railway-in ruins ever since Lawrence of Arabia blew it apart during World War I-from Medina through Jordan to Syria. In Jeddah, he is putting up a $14 million water-desalting plant that will daily convert Red Sea water into 5,000,000 gallons of potable water and produce 45,000 kw. of power...
...angles to one another, forming a diamond pattern around the wheel, but in a radial tire the cords are at 90° angles, forming a pattern of crosses. With this structure, the faster a car goes, the more tread is slapped onto the ground. The result is better road grip and up to 100% longer tread life-but also a harder ride. The tires are costly: about $50 each...