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...Merritt, 99, industrialist, nine-term (until 1936) Republican Congressman from Connecticut, and oldest Yale graduate (class of 1873); in Stamford, Conn. He campaigned for an express highway cutting through heavily traveled Connecticut, finally got a 37-mile, $21 million, landscaped toll road which opened in 1938 as the Merritt Parkway...
Speeder's Digest. In Trumbull, Conn., Victor Hovey, arrested for doing 70 m.p.h. on the Merritt Parkway, told the judge he had not realized how fast he was going because he had become engrossed by his wife's reading of a magazine article on the perils of speeding...
...driving down Connecticut's broad, tree-lined Merritt Parkway one night last week, a Navy chief petty officer named Franklin Jenson saw an unusual sight : an empty state police car was standing at the side of the road with its big rear warning light flashing rhythmically. He slowed. Then he saw something even stranger: a weak blink of light on the ground near the car. He stopped, got out. A white-faced state trooper was sprawled there in the darkness, working a flashlight button with his thumb, and dying from a bullet wound in his stomach...
...spokesman for the Planning Commission said authorities have already begun negotiating for lands to be used for the proposed surface lines. He added that Metropolitan District Commission land west of the Alewife Brook Parkway has been reserved for a transit terminal...
...reflectors, which stand 26 inches off the ground, will be installed to beyond the Fresh Pond Parkway on the Cambridge side, and from Fresh Pond Parkway to beyond Weeks Bridge on the inbound traffic side...