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Congress in the 1950s expressly rejected tolls as a way of financing the nation's interstate highways. But the Bush Administration, faced with an aging freeway system and a lack of money for building and maintenance, is rethinking the idea. Mary E. Peters, head of the Federal Highway Administration, has called Perry's TTC plan a "bold concept." President Bush has threatened to veto any increase in the nation's 18.4˘ gasoline tax and has expressed support for tolls on interstate highways. Other states, such as California, Missouri and Minnesota, are closely watching the Texas toll experiment...
DIED. FREDERICK FENNELL, 90, conductor credited with inventing the contemporary woodwind ensemble; in Siesta Key, Fla. His innovative recordings for Mercury Records, starting in the 1950s, helped create a model for the more than 20,000 wind ensembles in today's music schools...
...DIED. FREDERICK FENNELL, 90, conductor credited with inventing the contemporary woodwind ensemble; in Siesta Key, Florida. His innovative recordings for Mercury Records, starting in the 1950s, helped create a model for the more than 20,000 wind ensembles in U.S. schools...
Wolff’s grandfather Bob Wolff was the broadcaster for both the Washington Senators and the Minnesota Twins in the 1950s and ’60s. Recently elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame, Bob Wolff left radio to broadcast baseball games for NBC in the early 1960s and later went on to broadcast in Madison Square Garden. Rick Wolff, John’s father, moved on from pro baseball and has become a radio broadcaster in New York City for WFAN...
Harvard isn’t taking the same kind of heat today as it did in the 1950s, when it gained the nickname “the Kremlin on the Charles” and came under fire from Sen. Joseph McCarthy for the faculty’s alleged communist leanings. But the campus’ liberal sensibility reared its fur-hatted head again last year, when Mather House adopted a Soviet theme and wrapped itself in an iron curtain in the campus-wide House Wars...