Word: laning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight-lane Inner Belt highway, which is still being fought by Cambridge politicians, will probably cut through the City several blocks east of Central Square, displacing between 3000 and 5000 residents...
Early on St. Patrick's Day in 1962, an armed robber snatched $363 from the Diamond Cab Co. in Baltimore. Hearing cries of "Holdup," two cabbies trailed the gunman to 2111 Cocoa Lane and called police to the house. Mrs. Bennie Joe Hayden let them in; upstairs they found her husband undressed, in bed. One cop found a pistol and a shotgun in a toilet water tank; another found Hayden's clothes in a washing machine. Though the loot was never found, a robbery eyewitness and the pursuing cab drivers identified Hayden's clothes, which were deemed...
Gambling on Misfortune. The fans still should have stayed around. A. J. Foyt Jr. did. Twice before, in 1961 and 1964, Foyt, 32, had sneaked into Victory Lane at Indy when misfortune befell faster cars. A.J. was among a score of drivers who protested that Jones's car should be banned from the 500-arguing that it really was an "airplane," and that no piston-engined machine could possibly match the tremendous torque (1,000 foot-pounds) and acceleration produced by its 550-h.p. Pratt & Whitney power plant. But Foyt is nothing if not a pragmatist: he ordered...
...State Department of Public Works took the easy way out last Friday. It selected the Brookline-Elm St. route over the alternate Portland-Albany location for the eight-lane Inner Belt highway. There was no surprise in the announcement; the DPW has long favored Brookline-Elm. Construction will be cheaper and easier -- had the alternate route been chosen, the department would have had to make extra efforts to stabilize the highway in the shifty subsoil of the Charles River Basin. The DPW would also have had to admit to the federal government (which pays 90 per cent of the highway...
...example, Phil Harris, Bobby Darin and Alan King were all in Las Vegas but not on the Show. So Dana had to settle for the likes of Abbe Lane, Jerry Lester, Frankie Laine and Helen O'Connell. Dana himself was hardly the picture of authority, and just barely held the rambling shows together...