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Occupational Hazard. In Wauwatosa, Wis., surprised by police as he crept about in the offices of the State Washed Sand and Gravel Co., James Freeman, 19, was arrested on a burglary charge, taken out to a squad car where he fainted when reinforcements arrived...
...million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought, to close the gaps in the road (notably a 134-mile stretch in southeastern Costa Rica-TIME, March 14) and pave the dirt and gravel sections...
...neighbors on peaceful Tuckahoe Lane in Memphis, the signs of Landon V. (for Victor) Butler's increasing wealth came in little ways. As the biggest commodity speculator in years, he was doing fine. First the gravel driveway at his small bungalow was blacktopped, then a curb was added-and then the whole thing was refinished in crushed brick. On the driveway, instead of a Buick there appeared a Cadillac, then a second one-with chauffeur to boot. Three years ago Commodity Speculator Butler bought himself a $300.000 house, added a swimming pool with cabanas; he bought...
...getting started to connect the loose ends. But Nixon, who wants to help anti-Communist President Carlos Castillo Armas with public works, backs a speedup (with $20 million to $30 million in U.S. aid) that will quickly close the gap and pave the rest of the highway-now mostly gravel-through that country...
...Tiny El Salvador takes the traveler through rich coffee land on paved roads, and he crosses Honduras' corridor to the Pacific on good gravel. Nicaragua's part of the highway, looping here and there to touch at the various ranches of President Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza, is mostly macadam...