Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...including a psychiatric hospital. At week's end, 15,000 had been bagged for what officials bragged was "the highest number of individual arrests ever made by the Paris police." By official count, the riots had taken five lives (all Algerian save one) and injured 60. Unofficially, the toll was reckoned three times as high, largely as a result of rough-and-ready police "justice...
...farm implements among individual collective farms. A massive effort was made to streamline the system by packing the bureaucrats off to the countryside. As a result, collective farms now get their orders from the nearest provincial capital instead of from Moscow. But 40 years of fumbling have taken their toll: ambitious young men and women desert the farms for the cities; the old ones who stay on have become expert at working fitfully for the government and industriously for themselves...
...Football rolled on, taking its toll and separating the men's schools from the boys'. Columbia's best team in years lost to Princeton for the tenth straight year, 30-20. Maryland upset high-ranked Syracuse, 22-21. Notre Dame, strong on the ground, took to the air to edge tough Purdue, 22-20. The Big Ten looked like one big powerhouse: Michigan routed Army, 38-8; Michigan State took Stanford, 31-3; Ohio State set down U.C.L.A., 13-3. But, in the week's thriller, Iowa, rated first in the nation and heavily favored, just...
...approximately U.S. Route 20 between Boston and Sturbridge, Mass., and State Route 15 from Sturbridge to Hartford, Conn.). That compulsion has translated itself into astonishing figures. There are about 3,500,000 miles of roads in the U.S. today, and 61 million autos. The nation's toll roads, which now total 3,254 miles, bring in about $475 million a year in revenues. Abuilding is the $41 billion National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, authorized by Congress in the 1956 Federal Aid Highway Act, which will comprise a total of 41,000 miles by 1972 -by which time...
...Clearance. By far the most ambitious single highway project ever to come down the pike is the new million-dollar-a-mile federal highway program, which, by incorporating and expanding existing toll roads, bridges and tunnels, and by constructing brand-new roads, aims at a network connecting nearly 300 cities of 50,000 people and over. At first the cost was pegged at $27 billion, but by the time the members of Congress got finished parceling out special advantages to one another, they had raised the figure to $41 billion and had set in motion something that may well become...