Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May is one of the nicest ways to spend one. Reaching the main stem by the four-lane highway of nightclubs, record albums, radio and TV (TIME, Sept. 26), this pair, who come on stage in various roles and improvise, who glance at the life all around them and criticize, spend a great deal of their time being funny. By the end of the evening they have left tooth marks on much that is fatuous, wasp stings in much that is vulgar, powder burns on a lot that is neurotic or just human. They...
...weren't the volunteers working harder? What was wrong? Under Kennedy's crossexamination, Bob Conrad's temper suddenly snapped, and he jammed the accelerator in anger. "It's not as simple as that," he rasped. But before he could say much more, a Nebraska highway patrolman flashed him to a stop. Muttering his disgust, Conrad got out of the car to talk to the cop. Bobby Kennedy, his mind still zeroing in on politics, paid no attention. Slumping down in his seat, he turned his questions on Helen Abdouch. "Can't we do something...
Fast-moving Brazil has since built a bridge across the upper Parana, the border river, at the great Iguagu Falls, thus giving Paraguay its first direct highway route to the Atlantic. It has financed highways inside Paraguay and has given Stroessner free port facilities on the ocean.' Brazil's army has trained some of Stroessner's army officers, supplied him with castoff arms and 14 trainers converted to fighter planes that are permitted to fly from Brazilian bases if there is revolution in Paraguay. In turn, Brazilians got from Paraguay a bank branch, a 10-million-acre...
...statement by Pusey and 13 other heads of academic institutions called for a major advance from present levels of financial support for the colleges "to those already evident in such areas as military defense and highway development...
American literary studies have failed in their prime purpose--providing a "broad highway" into national culture--the new Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities stated in his inaugural address last night...