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Short Cut. In Flint, Mich., asked by police why he drove past highway barricades, sloshed his '49 Ford through 300 ft. of freshly laid concrete pavement, Gordon Yelland explained: "I was in a hurry to get home...
Just three weeks and one day after he entered Walter Reed Hospital, Dwight Eisenhower once again stepped back onto solid, ground-level pavement. His face and neck were noticeably thin; at 163 Ibs., he had gained back just one of the seven pounds he lost after his ileitis operation. His brown summer-weight suit now fitted a little loosely, his West Point-squared shoulders looked lean. With Mamie on his arm to lend balance, the President carefully took the five steps down from the hospital exit, mustered up one of his fine smiles and a wave for the battery...
...grass, trees and lake in lower Central Park. From the back seat edged the car's solitary passenger, a handsome, meaty man with wavy silver hair. He was dressed in a businesslike grey summer suit, red and white striped bowtie and soft black loafers. Stepping to the pavement, he turned slightly, tossed the driver of the rented limousine a "Thank you, James." Then David John McDonald, 53, president of the United Steelworkers of America, strode confidently past the smiling doorman, through the revolving door of the elegant apartment hotel...
...rooftops and balconies terrorists tossed three bombs one morning into the long, narrow Nicosia street that British troops call "murder mile." One soldier was killed, twelve were wounded. When the British closed down 37 shops and evicted 17 families along the street, a crowd of schoolgirls suddenly filled the pavement, shouting "Death to Harding." The girls paraded down the street, defying military police who were patrolling against just such an outbreak...
...intervals along 1.9 miles of Ponce de Leon Avenue are rubber inserts in the pavement that respond to each vehicle passing over them. They report to a 2-by-3-ft. aluminum box packed with electronic equipment. The box is essentially an analogue computer whose electronic intelligence forms a detailed picture of traffic on the avenue. When the Atlanta Crackers' ball game ends, the computer knows it immediately from traffic flow, and tells secondary control boxes at the traffic lights to clear the way for homebound fans. The master control box allows for the side streets too, and does...