Word: transport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CITIES. Big-city mayors who oppose interference by their state governments will be given approval power over state-run programs. In addition, cities will receive $1 billion directly from Washington to clean up decayed areas; they will also get $200 million to improve public transport...
Politically, Weizman is in the midst of what amounts to a second coming. In the late 1960s he quit soldiering to take a post in Golda Meir's government as Minister of Transport, but soon left to go into the shipping and electronics business. After a few months of unwonted silence in his new job as Defense Minister, Weizman began falling into his old hip-shooting ways. When he was asked, during the first delicate days of talks with Egypt, about reports of new Israeli settlements in the Sinai, he answered: "What do you want? I am only responsible...
Ultimately, Norris figures, America's cities will be rebuilt by big consortiums of private business. The Government will help guarantee bank loans and perhaps kick in some grants; churches and universities will put in investment funds. Construction companies will erect buildings; transport companies will bid for mass transit; energy, environmental control and waste recycling firms will all have roles, and much of the work will be parceled out to small business. The object is not only to raze and remake scabrous neighborhoods, but also to create private jobs, help small entrepreneurs and, not incidentally, to make money...
Harvard's other All-American sent such a shock through the pool that he almost shorted out the electric timing system. Golden Boy Malcolm F.S. Cooper, ranked 35th nationally in the 50-yd. freestyle before yesterday, took the supersonic transport back and forth across the pool and landed 20.84 seconds later to sneak into the consolation finals with the 12th fastest qualifying time...
...followed up the progress of the war from the Operations Room I became conscious of a serious development: the United States was using us for the air-bridge she now established to save Israel. El Arish became an airbase where colossal U.S. transport aircraft landed, loaded with tanks and sophisticated weapons. El Arish is an Egyptian city [90 miles east of the Suez Canal in Sinai, it was captured...