Word: triborough
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Robert Moses, 77, New York's onetime power, park and parkway czar, now chairman of the Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority; and Mary Grady, 50, an Authority secretary for 30 years; she for the first time, he for the second (one month after his first wife died); in Jersey City...
...their populations-and that the mayors often do not have the full authority needed to cope with them. In New York City, for example, Mayor Lindsay must go hat in hand to the state legislature for money, is unable to fuse the income of the independent Port Authority and Triborough Bridge and Tunnel Authority into the city's finances. Atlanta's Mayor Allen, like many other big-city mayors, is hampered by the intransigence of a rural-dominated state legislature. And, though Sam Yorty may have more authority than he cares to exercise, the fact remains that...
...effective public servants." The soft soap notwithstanding, Dear Bob was being fired from his powerful job as coordinator of the city's federal-state-city highway projects. Robert Moses, 77, once the master of the New York environment, including parks and beaches, is now left with only the Triborough Bridge, six other bridges and two tunnels to run. In a letter accusing Lindsay of "ripper legislation," he chided him for "the errors of your logic," and signed off as "Your venerable friend...
...having only slightly less trouble in his sensible effort to consolidate five uncoordinated traffic and transportation agencies under a single overseer. One effect of the change would be to remove Robert Moses, 77, the city's longtime super-planner and master builder, from the chairmanship of the Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority...
Died. Othmar Hermann Ammann, 86, master bridge builder, a Swiss-born engineer who pursued a lifelong vision of graceful suspension bridges linking major U.S. arteries, designed and built New York's George Washington, Triborough and new Verrazano-Narrows bridges and played a major role in the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate and Delaware's Memorial bridges; after a brief illness...