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...Hollywood Freeway, intended for 120,000 by 1970, now conveys nearly twice that many. "This is the only business where, if you have record crowds the first day, you consider it a failure," says Chicago's Project Supervisor Patrick J. Athol. To technophobes, this proves the futility of building roads-but that is something like not building schools to keep children from being born...
...liked what I saw.") Lasky even quotes one book about Kennedy to explain why J.F.K. could never have made a Nixon-type "Checkers" speech: "After midnight once, on a freezing night, Kennedy drove for hours searching for a motel, finally found a tourist home in the town of Athol, got himself ready for bed, when he spotted some dog hairs, got dressed again, piled back into his car, and drove on. He's allergic to dogs...
...daredevils have tried to crack Cobb's mark, and few sporting pursuits have been so costly to participants in terms of money and life. The turbine-powered Bluebird of Britain's Donald Campbell is, so far, a $5,000,000 flop. Three years ago, Utah's Athol Graham was killed when his homemade car lost a wheel at better than 300 m.p.h. Last year California's Glenn Leasher drove his jet-powered Infinity past the timers at more than 400 m.p.h., but moments later an explosion scattered car and driver over a square mile of Bonneville...
Prison Banquet. To the Texas of the 1880s Will Porter seemed the beau ideal. He dressed nattily, was quick-witted, had a good voice for midnight serenades or amateur theatricals, could dash off a funny verse or a caricature with ease. He married pretty, well-to-do Athol Estes, promptly moved in with her stepfather, and through the efforts of a friend got a job at Austin's First National Bank. All went swimmingly until 1894, when Will was 32 and the father of a five-year-old daughter. Then a sharp-eyed bank examiner dropped...
...trip to Smith from Cambridge will also be a good deal shorter as the Northampton-bound driver will no longer have to wander aimlessly through the wastelands of Athol and other central Massachusetts hamlets...