Word: paving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fateful meeting of Trans World Airlines' board of directors in Manhattan last week, former Ford Motor Chairman Ernest Breech and former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving S. Olds exuded confidence. Next day, Breech and five new directors were to be elected to TWA's board. This would pave the way for the election of Breech as TWA's new chairman and the naming of a president for the line, which has been without a captain since Charles Thomas resigned some six months ago. Best of all, after months of wrangling, they seemed to have bested their chief nemesis...
...good-will trip to the orthodox churches of the Middle East and his precedent-shattering visit to the Pope (TIME, Dec. 12). "I pray for an increase in unity of spirit," he had told the congregation of the Anglican Cathedral at Jerusalem, "in the hope that it will pave the way to an even more formal canonical union, which should be the final goal...
Last month Magalhaes turned up at Rio's Laranjeiras Palace and sat down to lunch with President Kubitschek. By dessert, the President had vowed to make good on his promise to pave the highway linking Bahia with Rio, 750 miles to the south, and last week the government let 24 contracts for the $38 million job. Kubitschek also promised to find $3,500,000 to complete one of Magalhaes' cheris'ied projects: long-deferred completion of the 20,000-kw. power dam on the Rio das Contas, which would feed electricity to the southern part...
WORLD'S LARGEST combination of bridge and tunnel (17.6 miles) will be built across Chesapeake Bay with $200 million revenue bond issue. Two tunnels, a bridge and 11.9 miles of causeway will link Cape Charles, Va. with Chesapeake Beach near Norfolk, pave way for a new coastal highway along the Virginia seacoast to provide most direct north-south route between New England and Florida...
...Time for Trivia. Unlike rural communes, which often take in a whole county, those abuilding in China's cities are generally organized around a single factory, government bureau or city neighborhood. To pave the way for urban communes. China's rulers have long been pushing the establishment of neighborhood mess halls, nurseries and housecleaning services, thus relieving women of "trivial housework'' and freeing them for industry. Thanks to this program, 220,000 ex-housewives in Peking alone are now employed in newly established "street industries"-small workshops or factories operated by 30 or 40 inhabitants...