Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 3½ years and nearly 1,500 performances of My Fair Lady in Manhattan and London, Musicomedienne Julie Andrews stepped out of the Cinderella role of Eliza Doolittle for the last time in London's Drury Lane Theater. Confessed Julie: "I never really got the part under control. I got very close to it sometimes...
Evergreen Park, Ill., Drury Lane Theater: Remains to Be Seen, with Denise Darcel...
Last week, in a surprising policy switch, the Burmese government of General Ne Win turned to the U.S. for help in two top-priority projects: constructing a badly needed four-lane highway from Rangoon to Mandalay and adding classroom space for 7,000 students at the University of Rangoon. The move was cheered even by Burma's original apostle of neutralism, Ex-Premier...
...made an undulating exit down a flight of stage steps two years ago, neatly curved (38-23-37) Singer Abbe Lane Cugat, appearing on NBC-TV's Xavier Cugat Show, took a humiliating tumble before her bandleader husband and goggle-eyed televiewers. Last week, claiming that the "defective, unsafe" steps had left her with a creaky knee and other locomotor impairments, Abbe, 27, hit NBC with a $600,000 suit for her injuries and loss of earnings. Cugie, 59, whose show was not renewed by NBC because Regular Lane then tumbled for other offers, joined Abbe in the courtroom...
...driver whose car displays, front and back, the big red L sign that stands for "learner." Disregarding double lines, painted arrows, blinking lights, rules of the road and the prospect of dismemberment and death, many L drivers whip past trucks on hills and blind curves, weave nonchalantly from lane to lane on the few big throughways. Picnicking on Sunday, drivers blithely leave their cars parked in the path of traffic. Last month 515 Britons died in traffic accidents; 23,277 were injured. The British death rate per auto-miles-traveled is 66.6% higher than...