Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...decision to refuse to rent its auditorium to the arch-conservative National Review; Queens College has vetoed student invitations to Black Muslim leader Malcolm X and to Benjamin J. Davis, secretary of the U.S. Communist Party; and Brooklyn College has put off a scheduled speech by State Assemblyman Mark Lane, because he had been arrested as a Freedom Rider in Mississippi...
...typical weekday in Dallas. Daddy is at work. Baby is having his morning nap. In an adjoining room, Brother (aged 3) is riding a new rocking horse and Sis (5) is watching TV cartoons. And Mommy? Mommy is just a few feet away, crouching over the foul line on Lane 53, her hip twisted sharply to the left to steer the blue-white-marbled ball into the strike pocket between the one and three pins. Mommy is bowling...
Kean (book by Peter Stone; lyrics and music by Robert Wright and George Forrest) casts Alfred Drake in the role of Edmund Kean, the early 19th century Shakespearean tragic actor of Drury Lane fame. The hero pursues a nightlong quest for identity, and the theatergoer may wonder why the case was not turned over to Mr. Keene, Tracer of Lost Persons. This lavishly mounted, richly costumed wide-stage dramarama is the most elaborate fiasco of the new theater season...
Smoothly and quickly, Technical Sergeant John H. Simpson of East St. Louis. Ill., swung the 90-mm. gun barrel of his M48 Patton tank down a sandy lane in West Berlin's 15-sq. mi. Grunewald Forest, aimed at a dark green box 920 yards away. "If that was a Russian tank." he yelled. "I would have had him with one round before he backed into the bushes...
...superhighways of the U.S. are a monument to motion (see color pages). Once, European tourists returned from a visit to the U.S. talking of Manhattan's skyscrapers. Today they talk of the U.S. road. A ride across the arching bridges, down the six-lane expressways, under the water and beneath cities, even through buildings, past automated toll booths, in and out of sweeping cloverleafs is an experience few Europeans can farget. On the intricate stacks of downtown Los Angeles, where motorists peel off like jet fighters, on the rolling expanses of the longest toll road-the 561-mile-long...