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Railroads, unlike the billions of dollars worth of projected expressways and airports, are already in place; tracks, roadbeds and rights of way already exist. As the authors also point out, there is no more efficient form of transportation: a six-lane highway can move 9,000 people per hour (with an average car occupancy of 1.2 per trip); a single railroad track can transport 60,000 people per hour. Travel by electric-powered train is 23 times safer than by car, 2½ times safer than by plane-and largely without sins of emission. The equipment for a revitalized rail...
Leone passed Northeastern's anchor man and broke the tape and the scoreboard indicated that the Huskies were out of reach. But a referee disqualified Buckley for stepping out of his lane and onto the inside dirt surface...
Before the Lafayette game on statewide television, there was an old "To Tell the Truth" show on. It was the one where a guy named Charlie Lane tried to not only stuff 60 raw oysters (assembled in rows of half-shells in front of him) into his mouth in 60 seconds, but also to swallow them...
Financed by the Friends of Harvard Track, the $300,000 facility boasted a six-lane, one-eleventh of a mile banked Tartan track, with an 80-yard straightaway, as well as accommodations for field events...
...happens, in Executive Action, like a low-grade, seedy shoot-'em-up. Dalton Trumbo's script is based on a story written in part by Mark Lane, the lawyer and assassination-conspiracy buff. Real names of persons and places are used except where they would be most crucial. The conspirators-Burt Lancaster, Robert Ryan, Will Geer and John Anderson among them-are assigned fictional names, but only the vaguest identides. Ryan, the force behind the plot, is wealthy; Lancaster apparently is a maverick intelligence operative; Geer, an elderly man who has oil interests. Such sketchiness satisfies the requirements...