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...Growing old is picking up a new edition of TIME, for the umpteenth time, and not knowing the face on the cover. Liv Ullmann? Sic transit Gloria Swanson...
CLAUDE S. BRINEGAR, 45, a California oilman, could turn out to be Nixon's most controversial Cabinet appointment. He takes over as Secretary of Transportation from John Volpe, who has been named Ambassador to Italy. While the Administration has supported the diversion to mass transit of funds earmarked for highway building, Nixon has chosen a man whose company, Union Oil Co. of California, stands foursquare against such a shift. In 1970 the firm spent $20,000 to help defeat a California proposition that would have switched some gasoline-tax money to public transportation. Union Oil was also responsible...
...Your Oct. 30 issue, in reviewing the past session of Congress, states, "Important bills died, several for want of White House support. Among the victims: . . . A massive highway bill, with riders that would have permitted the funding of mass-transit systems with money now set aside exclusively for highway construction (the President did not support the mass-transit amendments...
Flexible Method. The first pro-con page-on the subject of free public transit-appeared last December, and others have run on a once-or twice-a-week basis ever since. Dealing with topics as diverse as faculty tenure and garbage collection, the format has provided a flexible method for airing complicated subjects. An eight-part series on the presidential race, for instance, presented both the Nixon and McGovern positions on basic issues. In contrast with the known views of St. Petersburg voters, Times editorials endorsed the McGovern stand seven times out of eight, but because the Republican side...
Cambridge Mayor Barbara Ackerman said last night that Sargent's emphasis on mass transit was "just glorious," since "one road leads to another." She said that she favors extending the Red Line, or some alternate rapid transit route, from Harvard Square...