Word: whitton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington, the Council will speak to Rep. Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill (D-Cambridge), and Senators Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) and Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.). They will also present their case before Rex M. Whitton, administrator of the Bureau of Public Roads. The federal federal government will pay 90 per cent of the costs of the Inner Belt...
...nation's highways, spreading inexorably across the U.S., are not only transforming American life but having deep effects on business. Last week in Manhattan, Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton announced that the vast program to build 41,000 miles of interstate highway has just about reached the halfway mark: 19,950 miles opened, another 6,100 miles under construction. There is nothing halfway, though, about the economic impact that the $46.8 billion program has already made on dozens of areas across...
...trip was to publicize the Administration's see-America-first campaign-part of the drive to stem the outflow of tourist dollars-and to boost its new highway-beautification program. Taken along as tour guides were Interior Secretary Stewart L. Udall. Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton and Laurance Rockefeller, chairman of a White House conference on natural beauty...
...later, the bus swung briefly onto old U.S. 1 for a glimpse of roadside blight-junkyards, billboards and used-car lots. Whitton commended owners of automobile junkyards, which he called "disassembling yards," who have tried to screen the rusting hulks from passing motorists; the Department of Commerce counts 17,760 auto graveyards and scrap heaps lining the country's main roads...
...Marion Whitton, 62, Federal Highway Administrator. Highwayman Whitton is among the oldest of the Kennedy appointees, but may well be one of the spryest. A graduate civil engineer, he started out surveying for the Missouri State Highway Department in 1920, rose to become its chief engineer and prime builder of 12,000 miles of state roads. Democrat Whitton has won nearly every top professional award his trade has to offer, was strongly recommended for his new job by outgoing Republican Administrator Bertram Tallamy...