Word: overpass
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...Park. From just one block north, the fresh breezes and greenery seem a planet distant. Here is 111th Street, between Fifth and Madison Avenues, infested with prostitutes and dope addicts. Up a ways, at 118th and Lenox Avenue, is "junkie's corner," and at the New York Central overpass at 125th Street, over which suburban commuters ride every day between air-conditioned offices and well-kept homes, Negro prostitutes wait for white johns who know the spot and drive by in their cars...
...planes to smother the flames with foam bombs. A tidal wave hurled fishing boats far inland. A nearby island rose 9 ft. in a series of jolts, as if a giant were using a lever. Tunnels caved in; a train was buried beneath the collapse of an overpass...
...suggests 1) "that the author of this crime is a millionaire of Texas, called Mr. X"; 2) that Oswald was an accomplice; but 3) that the shooting was done not by Oswald but by two triggermen, one from the Texas School Book Depository building and one stationed on an overpass ahead. Buchanan's book is being published in eight European countries, already is a bestseller...
...racers). Strombecker markets models of famous racecourses, has a $29.95 model including a D-Jaguar, a Ferrari Testa Rosa, and a Chicane obstacle strip that permits only one car to pass without risk of a crackup. The A. C. Gilbert Co. sells a figure eight of track with an overpass and two Corvettes for $29.98. Aurora's latest accessories include a lap counter, judge's stand and turnoff, starting gate, grandstand-and a railroad crossing where a train can mash risk-takers...
...Because of the volume of traffic on the Drive, a traffic circle is useless," McCann said, "but an overpass would help to keep automobiles moving...