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...greatest work in the world" and ought not to be missed. The drive from Harvard Square to the air-conditioned Stratford Theatre at legal speeds takes just a little over three hours if one uses the new Massachusetts Turnpike and takes Exit 53 from the Wilbur Cross Parkway after New Haven. And the curtain always rises...
...shorten the trip to New York by at least a half an hour or even more for the intrepid college motorist. The chief advantage of the road for the New York traveler is that it cuts out the bleak stretch comprising Routes 9 and 20 to the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
...rundown, three-story building at 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn is the hub and powerhouse of one of the most intense religious brotherhoods in the modern world: the Lubavitcher movement. In Communist Russia and North Africa, Australia and all over the U.S.. an estimated 10,000 followers of this Hasidic sect look to Brooklyn for light and guidance, for it is the home of their Rebbe,* Menachem Mendel Schneerson. He is the seventh leader of the Lubavitchers, a man whose wisdom is believed by his followers to be something more than human...
...rapidly becoming as obsolete as the model T. The $33.5 billion, 13-year Government highway program will start bringing it up to date in 1957. And states everywhere are adding billions more for new turnpikes, secondary roads, and enormous elevated crossovers such as Pittsburgh's five-level parkway interchange designed to eliminate traffic and bottlenecks and speed travel. In California, for example, the state highway commission has been gouging away at the Santa Monica Mountains near Los Angeles. In places, it is cutting to a depth of 350 ft., and will remove 15 million cubic yards of earth...
Pause That Refreshes. In Westport, Conn., arrested for standing on the seat of his motorcycle as it ripped through Sunday traffic on the Merritt Parkway, Walter Buckner told a state patrolman: "I felt like stretching, but I didn't want to waste time stopping...