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...steamed until he got there. Charles de Gaulle, 73, recovered from his operation, was returning from the Left Bank hospital to the Right Bank Elysee Palace, and the police had thoughtfully blocked off all streets along the route. He made it in six minutes flat; the traffic jam took hours to unsnarl...
...when the squares start enjoying themselves, something has gone wrong. But the shrinking of the jazz scene has already badly damaged the atmosphere for making music. There is so little sense of com munity among the 1,000 or so jazzmen in New York that a genuine after-hours jam session is as rare and astonishing as a triple play. And now, with Birdland gone, where's home...
...opening of the New York World's Fair by stalling cars on the heavily trafficked highways and bridges leading to the Flushing Meadows site. It had a certain demonic appeal - New York is, after all, a city where a single flat tire can ordinarily cause a miles-long jam-up of horn-pounding, curse-shouting motorists...
...stall-in got nowhere. For one thing, a chill rain kept thousands of would-be fairgoers at home. For another, the fear of getting caught in Brunson's traffic jam was enough to make all but the most imprudent motorist stay off the highways. So light was the traffic, in fact, that driving became almost a pleasure...
...open the fair did, despite the abortive effort by CORE'S Brooklyn chapter to jam up all the approaches with stalled cars and subways. And it was very close to the readiness Fair Boss Robert Moses had prophesied all along. Externally, only a handful of buildings were not complete, ranging from the exposed rafters of the Belgian Village to a few forlorn steel girders sticking out of the ground at the site of the Hall of Science...