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...have a great idea here," Ellis told the area's leading businessmen, "but it's not going to move an inch with out financial backing." The businessmen responded with $100,000 for preliminary studies. In early 1966, a committee named Forward Thrust, consisting of 200 civic leaders - and all the power of their organizations - was formed to determine what needed to be done. The committee canvassed Seattle and its surrounding King County, welcoming all suggestions. One woman wrote: "I wish every time I came out of a downtown office building that I could see a little greenery." Replied...
After putting in 40,000 man-hours of work, Forward Thrust developed a working program that would cost $5.5 billion to realize-also much too expensive. While part of the committee pared this down to essentials-like a new stadium, storm sewers, a rapid-transit system and parks-other men prepared bills for the state legislature to enable the thrust to move forward. Of 19 proposed bills, 18 passed. Most important were measures to double King County's debt limit and to enable the county to borrow on behalf of its 30 cities. They permitted the county to finance...
...Forward Thrust's case, a 51% approval did not pass a bond issue; it took a clear 60% majority. When the voters went to the booths last year to consider twelve separate issues, costing $820 million, they passed seven of them, costing $334 million. Seattle's central area, a Negro slum, supported the entire program and will receive benefits from a $12 million street-improvement bond issue, plus new parks and swimming pools. The most expensive single item to be rejected-a $385 million mass-transit system-will be presented to the voters again next year, when traffic...
...Forward Thrust's program this far, Ellis had to deal with 30 city governments and King County. He readily concedes that it would have been more difficult to act if there had been many more governments to convince of the need for the improvements. Too, the problems in the Seattle area are not as grave as they are in other parts of the country-and there is more land, water, good air and scenery left to save. Yet Forward Thrust's precepts and example can serve many other cities. "We're a pluralistic society," says Ellis...
...drama of the crew exchange, it was the docking that mattered most. Soviet booster rockets are dwarfed by America's Saturn 5 and cannot thrust a manned spacecraft to the moon in one leap. Instead, the Russians must assemble their lunar vehicles in earth orbit. Until last week, although they had twice docked unmanned spacecraft, no cosmonaut had piloted the pieces together...