Word: asphalts
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...government knows its history too, and has no intention of seeing it repeated. Last week a thick coating of asphalt settled over the elegantly patterned cobblestones of the Rue des Ecoles, the Rue Saint-Jacques and the Boulevard Saint-Michel, the main battlegrounds around the Sorbonne in France's recent upheavals. After all, the riots of 1830 and 1848 had sent two of Charles de Gaulle's predecessors, King Charles X and King Louis Philippe, into retirement and obscurity...
...Kentucky bluegrass would be worse than useless. Squares and plazas are for people to move through and pavement is therefore necessary. But as Elizabeth Kassler wrote in Modern Gardens and the Landscape, it can be "pavement of such color, texture and pattern that it serves as antidote to the asphalt rather than continuation." Therefore the traffic islands ought to be paved with one of the many available materials which are at once visually interesting, less heat retentive than macadam and as or more functional and durable. Alternations of smooth and rough concrete, granite, cobblestones, bricks and fieldstone offer endless possibilities...
...majority opinion that read like a precis of Thoreau's Walden, Judge Kenneth Keating mourned "the intrusion of the seemingly endless line of asphalt and concrete into the enclaves which many have sought as surcease from the hustle and bustle of modern-day life." Keating's decision was in line with a landmark 1946 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court, involving a North Carolina farmer. He had sued the Government because the noise of military planes from a nearby airfield had reduced his chickens to a state of eggless nervous collapse...
France slowly picked up the pieces and dug out from under the debris of revolt. In Paris' elegant Tuileries Gardens, sanitation workers plucked beer bottles and litter from the multicolored flower beds. On the capital's broad boulevards, road crews shoveled steaming asphalt into the gaps where paving stones had been pried up to build barricades. Blue-uniformed mailmen made their appointed rounds for the first time in weeks. Trains and subways rumbled once more; the whine of jetliners echoed again at the airports. By the millions, French workers trooped back to their factories. Though there were still...
...brush of scandal is tarring Wallace cronies with a charge that asphalt to patch Alabama roads costs the state $2,000,000 a year more than it ought to, with the implication that some of this money goes into Wallace campaign coffers. Claiming that it was unable to sell any of its asphalt to the state, the Waugh Asphalt Co. sued Alabama Finance Director Seymore Trammell, who manages Wallace's presidential campaign as well as state purchasing, along with 24 firms and state-appointed "sales agents." It charged them with rigging prices, promoting monopoly and breaking state and federal...