Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...employees. In 1950 there were 8,807 telephones in Huntsville; now there are 25,678. Building permits totaled $2,500,000 in 1950; last year the total was $10,767,000 (not including the $20 million building program at Redstone itself). Memorial Parkway, a new four-lane stretch of U.S. 231, is lined with housing developments, more than a dozen modern motels, a $3,000,000 shopping plaza (with a delicatessen featuring Wiener schnitzel), and two new schools. A pride of the community is the new 55-piece Huntsville Civic Orchestra-with Werner Kuers, one of Von Braun...
...fatal accidents per 100,000 aircraft hours v. a rate of .73 per 100,000 for scheduled airlines. Yet, as more and more planes go aloft in all weather, it may get to the point where the nation's airspace must be sectored off like superhighways, one lane for private flyers, another for airlines, and everything run under strict instrument rules...
...little after 2 a.m. an eleven-car caravan raced from Miraflores Palace along a four-lane highway towards Caracas' tiny, little-used Carlota Airport. In a silence broken only by far-off scattered shots, Carlota's runway lights blinked on. At 2:53 the four engines of a DC-4 sputtered into action; 15 minutes later the plane lifted west over the downtown section of the city. In a few minutes the plane's winking red light disappeared behind the mountains edging the city, and Pérez Jiménez was gone, kited off after five...
Guatemalans have historically been prey to political extremes, ranging from a long line of rightist dictators to the Communists' most successful infiltration of a Western Hemisphere republic. When Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas kicked the Reds out in 1954, he began building a new middle lane in the political road. Last week, half a year after the colonel's assassination by a crackpot guard, his moderate ideas went down to defeat, jabbed by the left and steamrollered by the right in an election which all sides agreed was the freest in the country's history...
...first came upon Dr. Sam Johnson, that Author James (Career) Lee's mannered and meticulous TV adaptation of The Life of Samuel Johnson really caught fire. Though there was little dramatic continuity to Boswell's massive chronicle, the scenes that Omnibus selected-a rowdy night at Drury Lane, a fashionable gathering at Mrs. Thrale's home, a packed Old Bailey courtroom-were charged with both drollery and drama. For, more than any other Englishman, Sam Johnson raised "a life of talk to the level of a life of action...