Urgent Tucson I-10 upgrades eyed amid rising traffic
Arizona plans about 32 million dollars in I-10 and metro Tucson road work within a year including 14 miles of I-10 north of Tucson and widenings from Valencia Road to Mountain View. A separate nine million dollar plan advocates two new lanes and ramp changes for the high-accident 7.7 mile Tucson stretch, with daily traffic rising from 52 600 in 1975 to an expected 80 000 by 2000.
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Arizona Department of Transportation
Tucson
Valencia Road
Mountain View
Miracle Mile
Roger Road
Prince Road
Speedway
Cella, Barr, Evans & Associates
Arizona
Phoenix
Desert Museum a Desert Gem and Landmark
In fall 1951 a Pima County park committee planned a Tucson Mountain Park museum to educate Americans about wildlife plant life and scenery to foster conservation. Twenty five years ago Labor Day saw the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum open its doors. Since then over six million visitors from around the world have discovered its unique Sonoran desert treasures.
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Pima County
Tucson Mountain Park
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Sonoran Desert
Arizona Sonora Desert Museum
Desert
Most segregated Chicago dilemma tests busing plan
William Raspberry examines Chicago's voluntary desegregation busing as a test of race relations. Whites fear violence, blacks show limited engagement, and officials promise protection while police discuss a blue flu. The piece portrays a city with entrenched segregation and cautious, politicized black acquiescence amid mounting public tension.
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Bogan High School
Joseph Hannon
Bilandic
A. —. Dunlap
Jesse Jackson
NAACP
Urban League
Chicago
America
Secrets of a looter and the 1945 warehouse fire tale
John P. Roche recounts a postwar confession about looting during a New York blackout era. He describes salvage turning to theft, friends profiting from a warehouse fire, and his own role as an accessory after the fact while wearing a Fur lined Mf jacket taken from the Air Force.
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John P. Roche
New York
Mom
Our Republic
Dad
Johnny
Air Force
Nixon aides found guilty in phone tapping case
Mark Russell notes that Nixon aides Haldeman and Ehrlichman were convicted of tapping former aide Morton Halperin's phone. Halperin received a symbolic dollar awarded by the judge. Russell mocks the idea of a public fund to pay the penalty and hints at further appeals as he skewers constitutional rights and Nixon's circle.
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Nixon
Haldeman
Ehrlichman
Morton Halperin
Halperin
Battle over women in skilled trades heats up in construction
Victor Riesel reports a clash between labor leaders and federal action as the Labor Department orders quotas and timelines to place 210,000 women into skilled construction jobs. AFL-CIO officials denounce the plan as a dangerous, quota driven approach, while promising legal pushback even as the government enforces affirmative action on federal and private contracts.
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Talleyrand
H. G. Wells
James Thurber
Afl-Cio Building and Construction Trades Department
Alaska Pipeline
Labor Department
White House
Robert Georgine
Don Elisburg
Georgine
Philadelphia
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