Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Premier Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos was less reticent. He accused Hanoi of turning his country "into an active transit route for North Vietnamese troops going to South Viet Nam," and added that there were at least 40,000 fighting men from North Viet Nam permanently stationed in Laos...
...tell someone ta move, he's sposta move." Perhaps Mr. Glassman missed this CBS coverage while he was watching NBC; perhaps it was while watching CBS that he missed NBC, if they did give coverage; or perhaps, like so many of us, he missed the whole thing in transit. At any rate, his erroneous reporting of the erroneous reporting reminds me vaguely of Bertrand Russell's observation that, in a democracy, at least one knows the leaders can never be more stupid than the people because, in so far as the leaders are stupid, the people are stupider for having...
...sure, Rockefeller's subject was not the stuff that stirs hurrahs. The New York Governor called for a nationwide, decade-long assault on urban atrophy. To be financed largely by issuance of bonds, his program would allot $30 billion to schools, parks and mass transit, and $60 billion to universities, hospitals and middle-income housing. He also called on industry to invest $60 billion in slum renovation. Unless a major effort of that scope is undertaken, Rocky argued, the U.S. will remain "at one and the same time the affluent society and the afflicted society." When Nixon appeared next...
Unemployment was his next concern: Alioto journeyed to Washington and New York-to squeeze 3,000 new maintenance jobs out of San Francisco-serving airlines, create job opportunities in the post office, fire department, trade unions and in the Bay Area Rapid Transit's 75-mile construction project, which includes a tunnel under Market Street. Manhattan Banker David Rockefeller bent to Alioto's urging that a $250 million Embarcadero construction project -known locally as "Rockefeller Center West"-soon get under way. By careful cajolery, Alioto persuaded Warner Bros, to build a public swimming pool in Hunters Point...
Coffers & Hoffers. Oldsters who were leaving the city have been encouraged to remain by Alioto's concern: last week he proposed reducing transit fares for San Franciscans over 65 to 50 and, on a subsequent TV "phone-in," said he would try to get buses closer to the curb at pickup. Whether talking of hippies on the Haight ("This is not going to be any police state") or to Department Store Magnate Cyril Magnin (whom Alioto made city protocol chief), the balding, somber-suited mayor is the master of civic ceremony. Last week he redeemed a painful campaign promise...