Word: lane
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EVERGREEN PARK, ILL., Drury Lane Theater: Arms and the Man. Vintage Shaw only improves with age. His satire on the romantic view of life, love, and glory has almost as much bite today as it did when it first appeared, only a few years after the long-forgotten Serbo-Bulgarian...
Senate approval of the bill today. The measure will sent back to the House, on the veto Volpe's original measure. fight over the veto in the House next week. Veto has been vigorously Cambridge officials, who to the construction of the multi-million dollar eight-lane Inner Belt through the center of the City...
None of the political problems, however, could obscure the very real triumph that the day was meant to observe. The two-lane Mont Blanc tunnel, air-conditioned and equipped with ultramodern radar traffic control, will shorten the road between Paris and Rome by 125 miles-even more when the long winter snows close the Alpine passes. It is expected to be used by at least 1.2 million vehicles a year, each of which will pay tolls ranging from $3.25 (for a small European car) to $20 (for a bus). Just before its Italian entrance, a proud new road sign told...
...Concentration. The racing fan is more than a single spectator: he considers himself an active competitor, to one degree or another, in the world's biggest participant sport. Nearly everyone who drives a car thinks, at one time or another, about beating the "hot shoe" in the next lane. Auto companies do their best to enhance the illusion: naming cars "Le Mans," "Monza," "G.T.O.," "Grand Prix"; equipping them with bucket seats, tachometers, four-speed transmissions, and speedometers thoughtfully calibrated up to 160 m.p.h.-85 m.p.h. above the highest legal speed limit...
Died. T. Ashton Thompson, 49, Democratic Congressman from Louisiana's 7th District (Lake Charles) since 1952, champion of wildlife conservation; of injuries sustained when he was struck by a swerving tractor-trailer while standing on a parking strip off a 4-lane highway talking to a patrolman who had stopped him for speeding; on Interstate 85, near Gastonia...