Word: lanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...presidential party turned off Route 40 into a side road a mile outside town, and pushed on down the lane to the 1,900-acre ranch of Danish-born Aksel Nielsen, an Eisenhower family friend and financial adviser since the early '30s. Making an immediate break for his cabin, Ike shucked his tweed jacket and flannel trousers for old slacks and a fishing jacket. His Secret Service guards underwent an even more dramatic sartorial transformation. Stocking up on blue jeans and flannel shirts in local stores, they also bought wide, tooled-leather belts and, as a final Western touch...
...criminals won Fabian's grudging respect. For physical agility and courage, he feels few can surpass Robert Delaney, the first of the "cat burglars," who rifled jewelry from the bedrooms of Park Lane mansions while their owners were downstairs at dinner. Two men died trying to imitate him. One impaled himself on a spiked railing, and the other fell 40 feet with $32,000 in jewels in his pocket and grimly crawled two miles before dying. Having brought off six jewelry hauls worth some $120,000, Delaney was bagged in his own flat with most of the swag...
...Zworykin's automatic highway, each traffic lane has a wire cable buried in the paving down its middle. Carrying an alternating current, it will serve as a guide, like the rails of a railroad. Electronic devices on each car feel for the buried cable and make the power steering system keep the car centerd over...
...passing, Dr. Zworykin provides diagonal cables that lead from one lane to another. When a fast car treads on the tail of a slower car, one of the diagonals shunts it to the left-hand lane. Another shunts it back again when it is safely past. So far, Dr. Zworykin's system has been tried only with model cars on a simulated highway in his laboratory. The cars do not collide, and one passes the other nicely...
...chanique nearly panicked Carnegie Hall in 1927.* Instead, he has been quietly sitting in his Los Angeles home, industriously turning out music that is remarkably easy to listen to. Last week he was on hand for the opening of his third opera, Volpone, in Manhattan's minuscule Cherry Lane Theater...