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Newspaper
Las Vegas Sun
Location
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1977
Page
13
Las Vegas inquiry seeks personal details from Mr Price for inclusion in a national biographical volume. It asks about goals life philosophy standards and attitudes with a note that if selected a limited edition may be purchased at 25 dollars per copy.
A collage of pro and antiwar slogans, sports chants, political jabs, jokes, and reflections. Includes references to Las Vegas traffic control, 1955 automation, Nixon era rivalries, humor about aging, gambling, and famous figures like Henry Armstrong, Mickey Walker, Colleen Moore, and Abraham Lincoln.
Las Vegas uses a central computer at city hall to control 186 intersections with copper loop detectors. Traffic engineers explain signals respond to detected vehicle presence and programmed timing, with back up systems and fixed time fallbacks if the computer fails.
A Las Vegas Valley spending plan outlines $36.5 million for transport from Oct 1977 to Oct 1978. Funds cover McCarran Airport upgrades, 12 road tearups and rebuilds, bus service improvements, safety and off system roads, and numerous highway and street projects including Flamingo Road, U.S. 95, Boulder Highway, and Fremont Street reconstruction.
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