Highways Outlobby Skyways in Transit Debate
A column argues the highway lobby shapes federal funding, starving mass transit while highways receive about 75 percent of transportation dollars. It notes safety anxiety in air travel, advocates improved mass transit, and critiques reliance on highways, with Secretary Boyd acknowledged as limited by political ties.
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New York
Kenneth Lyons
Natonal
Washington
Forbes Magazine
Kennedy Airport
Chicago
O'Hare
Forbes
Congress
Federal Highway Trust Fund
Congress funds transit sparingly amid highway focus
A transportation critic notes Congress has allocated 175 million dollars for mass transit across 50 states, while highway funding approaches 1 billion. He urges a balanced plan that helps nonautomotive transit and questions the value of more highways, arguing driving should be enjoyable, not gridlocked. British archaeologist G C Sampson and wife Mary finish two and a half years clearing the Orange River basin before Hendrik Verwoerd Dam submerges sites. They catalog 919 boxes of stone age artifacts, including tool making, weapons, and carbon dating samples. Robert Louis Stevenson honeymooned in Napa Valley in 1880.
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Congress
Bloemfontein
South Africa
G.C. Sampson
Mary
Orange River
Hendrik Verwoerd
Sampson
Pueblo: A Wife's Vigil
In Bridgeport Connecticut Mrs Genevieve Sterling speaks of life with her four year old son Billy as she waits for news of her husband Charles Sterling a Pueblo crewman taken captive by North Korea. She describes phone letters from the Navy and coping with eight months of separation while tending a home with a radio and a Hong Kong carving on the TV.
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Bridgeport
Conn
Genevieve Sterng
Clark Gable
Charles Sterling
U.S
Pueblo
North Korea
Sterling
Navy
Billy
Citizens’ Band
Hong Kong
State Crisis Room at State Department Faces Thundering Present
A 1968 profile of the State Department Operations Center titled the crisis room. It describes the hub of rapid information, the multicolored phones, and the task forces summoned to handle emergencies from ship hijackings to invasions. Officials stress the center’s focus on people over gimmicks and its role as a consolidating point for briefing senators, relatives, and officials during crises.
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Washington
NEA
State Department
Dean Acheson
Hubert Wenzel
Dean Rusk
Czechoslovakia
Wenzel
Prague
Pueblo
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Bob Cochnar
NEA Automotive Editor
WS Eliker
Highway Lobby
United States
Secretary of Transportation
Alan Boyd
Yee
Robert Louis Stevenson
Napa Valley
Calif
By Tom Tiede
Mrs Sterling
Avy
Arkansas
Saeed
Cae
Rockefeller
George Shankle
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