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...Groaned the Roman poet Juvenal, circa A.D. 100: "Who but the wealthy can sleep in Rome? The crisscross of wagons in the narrow, winding streets, the shouting of drovers make sleep impossible. Hurry as we may, we are blocked by the surging crowd . . . One digs an elbow into me, another bangs a wine cask against my head . . . New tunics are torn...
...mechanical behemoths, such jobs as the Carquinez cut are only a warmup for the greatest road-building challenge in U.S. history: a vast, 16-year highway-building program that will crisscross the nation with a 41,000-mile interstate superhighway network,* plus thousands of miles of state and local roads. The program will be the largest public-works project in history, dwarfing the construction of the Roman road system and the Great Wall of China. The interstate network will reach into every corner of the U.S.-75% of it over new routes-to link 42 state capitals...
...rolled out Tic Tac Dough this summer (Mon.-Fri. 12 noon) with Veteran Cashier Jack Barry maneuvering players "horizontally, diagonally or vertically" in the old crisscross game of ticktacktoe. Prize per game: $100. But, adds the network, a winner "may increase his winnings indefinitely...
Inside the building, which is roughly cubical and 61 ft. long, is a three-quarter sphere made of a spidery crisscross of thin-walled steel lined with wire mesh. The whole thing, 30 ft. in diameter, is mounted so that it can be tilted 65° in any direction. It can also revolve, and a platform poking up to its center can revolve independently...
...queens builds her nest in the hold of a freighter, but is destroyed when the ship is sunk by naval gunfire. When the other and her brood are traced to the 700 miles of sewer conduit that crisscross beneath metropolitan Los Angeles, martial law is declared, and a jeep-borne army contingent roars in to wipe the things...