Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prophet's birth, where they would make the ritual seven circuits around the shrouded monument and enter to kiss the Black Stone handed down by the Angel Gabriel to Abraham. If they took time to notice, they might have detected a change in the air. Along the six-lane highway that leads inland to Mecca from the Red Sea port of Jiddah, pilgrims were ministered to by mobile hospitals, reservoirs of ice water, and troops of Moslem Boy Scouts. In the capital of Riyadh, lights burned late in the massive ministries along the main, four-lane boulevard...
Fighting a persistent drizzle and a troublesome headwind, the varsity jumped to an early lead in the feature race and and was far enough ahead going into the turn to keep a few seats on the Tiger shell, overcoming the disadvantage of being in the outside lane around the bend...
...that abrasive Charles Wyzanski should run afoul of Manny Celler and John McCormack, neither of whom is famed for a cool temper. The bad blood between Wyzanski and Celler goes back five years, to the time when Wyzanski was assigned to sentence Massachusetts' Dem ocratic Representative Thomas J. Lane, a member of Celler's Judiciary Committee who pleaded guilty to evading $38,542 in income taxes. Before Lane was sentenced to four months in prison (he was promptly re-elected to Congress on his release), Celler asked Wyzanski for a meeting in his chambers to discuss the case...
...race Cornell, rowing in the middle lane, cut across into the Crimson's water to win by one length. After the race, however the Big Red were disqualified for bad steering, giving the victory to the J.V. Rutgers finished a distant third...
Sportswear to Spinach. Though the state's fast growth has relieved Florida of its worry about the tourist exodus, it has brought a tangle of new problems. For one. the need for highways is pressing. The state has built 500 miles of four-lane roads in the past five years, but that does not begin to fill the need. Says newly elected Governor Farris Bryant: "We are a score of years and a billion dollars behind in highway construction." As fast as industry is coming into Florida, it still is not coming fast enough to supply the new jobs...