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Inevitably, as transit service declines and roads improve, more autos not only crowd the routes to town but choke the city streets as well. Chairman George L. DeMent of the Chicago Transit Authority understandably bemoans "the 5 o'clock shadow of smog, noise, tension and wasted time." Freeway tie-ups have multiplied to the point where airborne traffic spotters in at least 25 cities now broadcast advice about how to dodge them. Frequently, a new freeway built to carry 100,000 cars a day no sooner opens than it is inundated by twice that many. Besides, one mile...
AFTERMATH (London). The Rolling Stones still choke on raw emotion (Paint It Black) and holler Beach-Boyish insults over a throbbing beat (Stupid Girl). But on occasion, now, the wild-eyed quintet become as refined-if not as inventive-as the Beatles, and back up their ballads with dulcimer, sitar or harpsichord...
...died almost ignominiously, without even coming to a vote in the Senate. After twelve days of deliberation over a motion to take up the measure, its supporters made their second, foredoomed attempt to choke off debate, but mustered only a 52-to-41 majority for cloture-ten short of the necessary two-thirds of those present and voting. Majority Leader Mike Mansfield thereupon recited the epitaph. "It would be futile," said he, "to prolong consideration of this issue...
...Britain's Peter Shaffer, The Pad is laid out as a parable of friendship. Ted (James Farentino), who considers himself God's gift to the working girl, is a crude dude with a smile like a moonlit mackerel and a little black book that would choke a billy-goat. Bob (Brian Bedford), on the other hand, is one of the pure to whom all things are pure, a dear young fuddy-duddy who works as an errand boy in a freight company, lives in a furnished garret in Venice, Calif., and is so madly in love with classical...
...girls learn arm-locks, hold-downs, and chokes. "But we don't choke the windpipe, she adds assuringly. "We just temporarily cut off the blood supply to the brain." Then the opponent gives up, needless...