Word: jam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airports swarm with planes-in the air and on the field-while the nation conducts a search for solutions to a dangerously growing traffic jam. When Congress convenes next month, it will see one new proposal-a Senate Aviation Subcommittee call to spend $3 billion immediately, a total of $7 billion by 1975. Having just completed two months of hearings-the first thorough congressional review of airport problems since 1958-Subcommittee Chairman Mike Monroney says: "Every witness conceded that we are in a state of crisis...
Thursday, December 14 CHRYSLER PRESENTS THE BOB HOPE SHOW (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Bob Hope portrays a modern-day Saint Nick caught in a traffic jam on a California freeway and thrown into jail. With Bob are Phil Silvers, Ernest Borgnine and Wally...
...member of the cast knows where to prospect and she alone is enough to make the show worth seeing. Her name is Meg Meglathery, and she plays one of the weird sisters. She is marvelous. Tart as some of her own quince jam and so tiny that she is virtually two-dimensional, Miss Meglathery bustles self-containedly about the stage amid heavy traffic of corpses, cops, criminals, and intended victims. Her voice is crystal clear, her demeanor is perfect and her timing is unfailingly accurate...
...abstract or figurative, dislikes even having it pinned down as either "large" or "small." All that he is prepared to concede is that he spends at least eight hours a day pounding, twisting and welding together the sheets and found scraps of steel, aluminum, chrome, tin and copper that jam to overflowing the two back-to-back garages he uses as a studio on Chicago's North Cleveland Street...
...industry sales in the first nine months of 1967 were up 17% over last year's record business. Just seven years ago, there was only one car for every 25 Italians; by the end of this year, there will be one for every seven. The exasperating urban traffic jam has become a national horror. Historic piazzas have been turned into huge parking lots. Ancient Roman roads are being lined with more and more service stations. From Milan in the north to Messina in the south, the car is king...