Word: detours
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...kite and are snatched up by two of Wu's scouts. In dutiful obedience to their captors, the boys help them capture a whole trainload of military equipment. Delighted, General Wu sends the boys home by the only safe route - a 3,000-mile detour through the Gobi Desert. On their tremendous journey they have adventures enough to impress Tom Sawyer: a Living Buddha trusts them with a secret message, a great bandit prince bows down to do them reverence, a buried treasure opens to their shovels in a ruined city. The story never rips & snorts; it moves with...
...roadside parking and many states have laws governing the maximum length of trailers, prohibiting them from driving at night or on weekends, etc. Going from New York to Los Angeles in a 35-ft. trailer, a traveler must get individual permits from no fewer than six states, and detour around one (Iowa) entirely...
...allied decision to turn back Farben's successors to their original owners is a milestone along the road of German recovery. Is it also a detour leading back to the cartel, with all its restrictive agreements? The danger is great; since wartime, Farben companies have shown a marked hankering for reunion. A few years ago, Farben companies in the U.S. zone were split into 42 different units. They have since merged into twelve. Furthermore, no one doubts that the Big Three Farben successors would like nothing better than to rejoin forces, and drag in the others. What may stop...
...better than ever today. Its immediate postwar traffic of 500 vehicles a month has zoomed to 1,000 a day. Even the new peak is expected to double after next June, when the connecting Hart Highway from the West Coast is completed. That will cut off a 900-mile detour and give traffic from as far south as San Diego, Calif, direct access to the Yukon and Alaska...
...real-life romance blossomed at the Metropolitan Opera. Baritone Robert Merrill, 33, recently reinstated after a wayward detour to Hollywood, and 21-year-old Soprano Roberta Peters, who made a dramatic debut in a last-minute substitution a year and a half ago as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, announced they would marry this summer. They met while singing Figaro and Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in which Figaro tries to persuade Rosina to marry the romantic tenor, Count Almaviva. Cracked Merrill: "This time the baritone got the girl...