Word: highway
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...progress at all. Gromyko flatly refused even to discuss the future of East Berlin, would only talk about changing West Berlin's status. He was not at all interested in internationalizing the Autobahn through East Germany from Berlin to the West ("Would the British like to see the highway from London to Dover internationalized?" asked an East German newspaper sardonically). He also repeated his familiar demand that any settlement must permit Russian troops to join the U.S., British and French garrisons in West Berlin...
...seven-story house on Paris' Avenue Matignon ("My husband is a perfectionist, and so he would rather build a building than live in an apartment"), a stud farm in Normandy, and a mansion near Palm Beach at Lake Worth, Fla. The Florida property is divided by U.S. Highway A1A, faces the lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected by a specially built tunnel under the highway that Mrs. Guinness has had decorated with furniture and screens painted by a young French artist she is interested in. They also keep three planes...
Ever since highway patrolmen started using radar to trap speedsters shortly after World War II, U.S. motorists have been searching for ways to beat the electronic rap. With misguided ingenuity, hot-rodders packed hub caps with uranium ore or loaded them with steel balls; they sprayed the fan blades with aluminum paint, dangled static chains from rear bumpers, festooned their radio aerials with strips of aluminum foil. But nothing seemed to foil highway radar, and latter-day Barney Oldfields continued to be hauled in like herring in a net, whining "Unfair...
Faced with this transistorized stool pigeon, highway patrols are taking alarm, crying "Foul!" The city of Chicago, the District of Columbia, and the state of Connecticut have banned Radar Sentry. Other states take some comfort from the fact that Radar Sentry is erratic; in informal tests. New York experts found that even diathermy machines and neon lights can trigger its squeal. But if the gadget continues to sell, many states will consider banning it. Says New York State Motor Vehicle Commissioner William...
...charges about Harvard's role in the Inner Belt controversy came at the first day of hearings on a bill to repeal the veto power over Federal highway construction given to Cambridge and other Massachusetts communities last year. Toomey vigorously opposed revocation of the veto power in his speech Tuesday...