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...televised address, Sargent announced his decision to oppose the construction of say new expressways within Rte. 128, a commuter highway which forms a semi-circle to the west of Boston. He proposed instead, "a series of (mass) transit lines from downtown Boston to Rte. 128, where the parking facilities will allow a motorist to leave his car and speed into the city...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts donated the land, which presently contains the Bennett-Elliot Metropolitan Transit Authority's (MBTA) stock yards...
...Churchill's personally, but does so in a shallow, journalistic sense which avoids the darker recessed of a very complex man. The young Churchill was brash, egocentric, wholly absorbed in his political career. He blatantly infringed on a main canon of British breeding (somehow lost in the Atlantic transit) which considers youth a regrettable interlude to be borne with patience and modesty, and ambition as tolerable only if it is decently concealed. The film does treat Churchill's publicity-mongering, as well as his dismal performace in school, where he was invariably ranked last, but in a manner which makes...
Three weeks ago, a hastily called meeting of the seven major U.S. refugee agencies worked out plans to handle the Ugandans.* While some staffers searched for temporary homes and jobs for them, others went to Italy to talk to the exiles as they arrived at a transit camp near Naples. Lodging and work has been found for the refugees, though many will have to settle for less satisfactory jobs than the ones they left. Given their skills, they are not expected to have much trouble adjusting to the U.S. A bilingual tip sheet acquaints the Ugandans with some...
Dallas-Fort Worth, which will open next fall, uses the same principle-on a Texan scale. Four semicircular terminals stand on opposite sides of a central access road and are linked by an automated intraterminal transit system, a "horizontal elevator" capable of carrying 8,000 people an hour. Eventually, as air traffic increases, the $700 million airport will expand by building nine more identical buildings with a grand total of 234 gates-enough to handle 60 million passengers a year, or the projected needs to the year...