Word: river
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...column or train would be not only a diplomatic fiasco -in that the U.S. would seem to make the first warlike move-but a military absurdity as well. The four-lane Autobahn snakes along over no fewer than 29 vulnerable bridges, among them the quartermile span over the Elbe River, still only half replaced since its total destruction by Allied bombers in World War II; the railroad has 49 bridges. Destruction of a single bridge or a short stretch of rail or highway would halt a column or train in country commanded by superior forces...
Vermont--Big Bromiey, 10 to 24, good to excellent; Mad River Glen, 52 to 72, excellent; Mansfield (Stowe), 50 to 70, excellent; Mt. Snow, 17 to 44, excellent; Smugglers Notch, 47 to 55, excellent...
Commuter parking and traffic through the Square will be reduced by making Harvard "just a stop along the way," Lenthall said. In addition, the car barns near the Charles River will become virtually useless, an MTA official disclosed, and the property will be sold. Last month the University offered to purchase the property for the ninth and tenth Houses...
...Over the River. When he was 16, Harry got fed up, left George Washington High School, and six months later joined the U.S. Navy. The experience, he remembers, was "like taking a deep breath." Assigned in 1944 to an all-Negro unit, many of whose members were college graduates, he became interested for the first time in Negro history. The other highlight of his naval career was his meeting with a well-to-do Negro girl named Frances Marguerite Byrd, who was a student at Virginia's Hampton Institute, where Harry was in training. He immediately recognized...
...minor roles. Soon after that, he enrolled in the Dramatic Workshop at Manhattan's New School for Social Research, where his classmates included Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis. Harry also persuaded Marguerite to marry him one evening in 1948 by swinging her over a parapet by the East River and holding her suspended over the water until she said yes. "I married him," she now explains, "because I felt that if I didn't, he was going to turn delinquent...