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...moving them from place to place becomes in creasingly acute. More autos are not the answer: in some big cities, cars often have to move at the pace of a slow walk. Desperate for a way to reduce the growing crush, cities are seeking to improve their mass transit with new ideas, new systems and new equipment. Last week American Machine & Foundry announced that 18 U.S. cities are considering elevated monorail systems. Pittsburgh is building a one-mile experimental "skybus" expressway over which remote-control trains of rubber-tired buses will be guided by an I-shaped center rail...
With civil rights on the way to enactment, the year-long legislative logjam began to break. Last week the Congress also: > Approved, by a 212-to-189 House vote, an Administration-backed $375 million urban-transit bill designed to aid cities in improving their municipal and suburban public-transport systems. Spread over three years, federal funds would cover up to two-thirds of the cost of transit-system renewal or expansion. >Shelved, by a voice vote of the House Ways and Means Committee, the Administration's longstanding medicare bill. Instead, the committee approved a measure that would boost Social...
...only delayed unloading the $2,750,000 cargo last month but impounded the Danish freighter that carried it. Last week the Bulgars finally released the ship - after its owners agreed to put up $350,000 pending an international investigation to determine whether the cotton was damaged in transit...
...unpunished beatings and killings of Negroes, which continue to feature the civil rights theme in the Deep South." At midweek, New York's Mayor Robert Wagner said grimly, "I am determined that we're going to have law and order in our subways." He announced that 200 Transit Authority policemen would go on daily overtime duty in subways, another 500 regular New York cops would do the same on the streets above, and all of the city's 20,000 patrolmen-most of whom travel to and from work on subways-would commute armed and in uniform...
...opened in Washington last week. The idea came from Attorney General Robert Kennedy after a drive through one of the city's most depressed areas, which had almost no recreational facilities. He studied the problem, developed plans, and chose O. Roy Chalk, the energetic president of the D.C. Transit System, to raise the $200,000 needed for construction. But the most inspired idea cost nothing: to ask the armed forces to donate some obsolete tanks, planes, and ships. They happily complied. Chalk has now set up the National Committee on Playgrounds for Young America, hopes to raise...