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Popping up in New York City to reopen the World's Fair, he shared the limelight with a new friend, James Nathan Jr., 3, from The Bronx. Without a single line of oratory, he caused a small traffic jam on Broadway as he left the musical Any Wednesday, next night got caught in the celebrity jam that turned out to see Rudolf Nureyev on the Royal Ballet's opening night. Then off to Norfolk, Va., for a luncheon speech on Viet Nam. Up to Washington to present awards to Agriculture Department employees whose ideas had saved the Government...
Wildness got Scott into another jam in the ninth. He walked Cornell catcher Tom Guise to start the inning and wild pitched him to second. After striking out first baseman Joe Piperato, Scott walked pinchhitter Mike Riff to put men on first and second with one out. But the next batter fouled to O'Donnell and Houston ended the game by going to his knees to snare left fielder Jim Purcell's windblown foul popup...
...Harold Gray, was unbothered: "I'm not crusading. I'm doing a script. I know some editors are writing editorials saying it couldn't happen in their states. But it can be done. The main thing is that I had to get Daddy Warbucks into a jam. This is a believable jam...
Effects of the strike will linger for weeks. When the I.L.A. struck for 34 days two years ago, it took a month to clear up the log jam of freight in New York. This time, said port officials, the pile-up is so much bigger-dozens of ships, unable to find berth space, have been anchored in the harbor-that eight weeks may be required to clear it away...
...sent to the House, where speedy approval is expected, the bill provides $1.1 billion in federal aid over the next five years. Of this, $840 million would be used to help build some 3,350 miles of new highways and access roads. Not that Appalachia has a traffic jam; rather, the area would like to create one, with a road system that would bring in new industry and attract more tourists to its thousands of acres of lakes and forests. West Virginia, for example, estimates that 360 miles of new parkway in the state might bring...