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...crank with money. Newspaper editorials and letters-to-the-editors, plus arty-party chitchat, have shown in the past month that Hartford does make sense to thousands of people. But his view that art should follow only a middle road-a three-lane, 40-miles-an-hour parkway between photographic realism and emotional expressionism-is too pat to be persuasive. It would sacrifice the adventurousness that often lies at the heart of art for the sake of mild, easy-to-take conformity. Hartford's oldfashioned black powder, however, did contain enough grains of justification and documentation to rattle those...
Automatic Toll-Taker. New Jersey's Garden State Parkway is using a robot toll-taker that collects fares directly from motorists, corrects improper payments, sounds an alarm if a motorist fails to ante up properly, and has a camera that snaps a picture of the rear license plate if a car tries to get by without paying the toll...
...heard it from the lips of Phyllis C. herself, a client. Whether the letter was true or not, the confession had come too late. The Story of the Woman Who Paid was well on its way to becoming a part of American folklore, like the lady on the Merritt Parkway (TIME, March...
...instead of the customary few hours. Pontiac commercials concentrate on good "portrait shots" of the car while an off-screen announcer raves about "this year's sensation that thrills the nation!" Oldsmobile has produced the most eye-catching commercial: a flood of white convertibles moving smoothly along a parkway and into a cloverleaf exit. Only 40 cars are used, but skillful camera work makes it seem like hundreds...
...State Police advise that the best route-to Princeton Route 9 from Boston to Route 20 east of Worcester. Follow Route 20 to Route 15 east to Hartford, and continue on south along the Merritt Parkway, which joins the Henry Hudson Parkway north of New York City. Turn off the Hudson parkway at the George Washington Bridge, following the signs to the New Jersey Turnpike. Leave the turnpike at the New Brunswick exit and proceed about five miles to Route 1. Follow Route 1 until the signs for Princeton appear on the right...