The fall, from the center of the bridge, is about two hundred feet.

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In the wake of encouraging early results, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is planning to push ahead with its plans to remove all cash tolls from the Henry Hudson Bridge by fall.

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Mr Carter has a good feel for the arc America traced from the buoyant post-war optimism of the Apollo programme across the bridge of the Vietnam war to the pessimism surrounding Nixon's fall from power.

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