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...brand-new Pook's Hill Inter change near Bethesda, Md., is different. There you can be absolutely certain that you're wrong. They left out half the exit ramps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: Trapped in Spaghetti | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...Pook's Hill, Washington's new four-lane Capital Beltway, which circles the metropolitan area, intersects the six-lane Route 355 and the four-lane Route 240; and the designers have ingeniously arranged it so that all three superhighways come together at once in a magnificent swirl of concrete spaghetti. Tourists tend to think their frustration is their own fault; it is all but inconceivable to the average mind that on such an elaborate interlacement of roads, eastbound traffic on the beltway cannot go north on Route 355; westbound beltway traffic cannot go south on Route 355; southbound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: Trapped in Spaghetti | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...seems to know how the Pook's Hill plans got so pixilated, and no one seems to know what's going to be done about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: Trapped in Spaghetti | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

...Theosophical Society has unloosed a "tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggery-pook on the superstitious suburbs of the West." This is an unwarranted attack on an honorable institution, considerably older and more stable than TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...Strand that first published Rudyard Kipling's Puck of Pook's Hill, H. G. Wells's The First Men in the Moon and W. W. Jacobs' "Night Watchman" stories; it gave a head start to such other up-&-coming writers and illustrators as P. G. Wodehouse, Agatha Christie, A. E. W. Mason, George Bernard Shaw, Max Beerbohm, Osbert Lancaster and Sidney Paget...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Death of a Tradition | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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