Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Starting lineup for today's game will contain no radical changes. Don David-off, John Lane, and Lewis will be the attack men, backed up by Tim Cogan, Lindsay Fischer, Bobby Lloyd, and Fuzzy Stewart in midfield slots. Tom Cooney will tend the nets...
Elephants. Laos, once known as Lane Xang (the Land of a Million Elephants), is the Shangri-La of Southeast Asia. It is mistily mountainous, covered with tiger-haunted jungle and elephant-inhabited rain forest, and can only be reached by air, by traversing two very bad roads, or by sailing up the mighty Mekong. Half its people are Thais, living in the lowland valleys; the other half are primitive Khas and Meos. Huge, smiling statues of Buddha dot the landscape, and saffron-robed Buddhist monks are everywhere. Wearing scarlet jackets, gold and silver beads and bracelets and flowers in their...
...Londoners were amused by the story of a Texas millionaire who, for a cabled $1,500, rented a Park Lane apartment for coronation week. A friend in London, sent to check on the apartment, reported back that its view was completely cut off by a grandstand. "Buy up the stand and tear it down," came the reply from Texas...
While orange groves were being uprooted to make way for suburbia, and new six-lane freeways reached out to ease the swollen traffic arteries, one of the few unchanging Los Angeles landmarks over the past 14 years has been its mayor, Fletcher...
...just off the assembly line, it is a spindly Victorian-looking machine with a rubber bulb horn and a wheezy engine. Its thin-spoked front wheels, poking forward like the forelegs of a praying mantis, can-by police stipulation-negotiate a U-turn in a 25-ft. lane. Up front sits the cabbie, exposed on each side to spring's deluge and winter's blasts, separated from his passenger by half an inch of plate glass and half a century of tradition. "Won't do to get too close to the passenger," explained one cabbie cheerfully. "Might...