Word: transiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time of peace on earth and good will among men." In Los Angeles, where tinsel dreams are mass-produced, Lyndon sounded every bit as Utopian. "We are going to have to rebuild our cities," he said. "We are going to have to reshape our mass transit facilities. We have to purify our air and to desalt our oceans. We are going to make all the deserts bloom." Think Positively. Just how would all this be done? Never mind the details, said Lyndon in effect. Just think positively. "All we need to do now," he cried, "is to go around...
...central Philadelphia this week, workmen were finishing two towering modern office buildings that will substantially complete one of the nation's biggest chunks of center-city reconstruction in 30 years?a $120 million complex of transit and bus terminals, hotels, shops, restaurants, offices, underground concourses, sunken gardens and pedestrian malls called Penn Center. Near by an underground garage was taking shape in a block-square crater, and a stone's throw down Benjamin Franklin Parkway a crane was hoisting marble panels onto the top floors of a new circular apartment building...
Dowling of New York, successful developer of Pittsburgh's Gateway Center and Manhattan's Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village, came to the rescue. Called in by the railroad as a consultant, he approved the superblock with underground connections to the rail transit outlets ? the Pennsylvania suburban station and a stop on the Market Street subway ? and added the idea of a bus terminal at the west end of Penn Center to anchor...
Through the four years of the Kennedy and Johnson administrations the House has been the more conservative legislative body. This year it passed the Tuck amendment on reapportionment, defeated medicare, and forced Johnson to hold up several bills (mass transit, school and college construction) until deals could be made. When the President got his majority on a bill, the majority was usually small; 44 times in the last four years, according to the National Review, Republican votes have been needed to pass "crucial measures of anti-conservative nature...
...been a conscientious freshman Senator. He worked on two important committees, developing specialties within them where he exercised some influence. He chaired a subcommittee which drew up a package of bills designed to help the aged. He worked on the urban mass transportation bill and helped co-ordinate Massachusetts' transit program with the government's. He helped collect support for cloture and the civil rights bill and devoted his only major Senate speech to it, just before a plane crash hospitalized him this summer. His voting record has been a strong one, particularly since his brother was assassinated...