Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asking for at least a token British force to guarantee the peace. Plainly worried about Nasser's intentions, the U.S. State Department warned against "unprovoked aggression" in Aden. A three-man United Nations team is to arrive later this month to explore ways to smooth Aden's road to independence. But FLOSY's Mackawee for one has already pledged to "redouble the bloodshed" unless the U.N. mission recognizes his organization as the only representative of the people. Since the other nationalists are unlikely to accept this solution, Aden appears headed for further convulsions...
...gone on a shopping spree, snatching up publishing companies right and left. Today, the Times Mirror is one of the nation's largest publishers of paperback books; it also puts out Bibles and dictionaries, art and medical books, airline flight manuals, slide rules and even service-station road maps. It publishes the San Bernardino (Calif.) Sun and Evening Telegram and, south of Los Angeles, the Orange Coast Daily Pilot. According to Times Mirror President Albert Casey, it is the company's ambition to double its earnings in the next five years. In 1966, they stood...
Unity for Division. The second scheme, announced by Mayor John Lindsay last week, is really a doubleheader: it starts with 5½ miles of existing Long Island Rail Road tracks in Brooklyn, calls for covering them over first with the proposed Cross Brooklyn Expressway, then placing on top of that a "spine city" of schools and colleges, housing, parks and community facilities. The planners envision shuttle trains and moving sidewalks to carry people to and from the length of the spine, see the linear plan as capable of indefinite extension...
...m.p.h. for the Volkswagen bug; it gets 38 miles to the gallon against Renault's 39. While far from fancy, the plastic interior trim is durable. Its two front bucket seats fold back for sleeping, and the car's rack-and-pinion steering makes for good road-holding quality...
...less successful. This is especially true of Williams' grotesque title story, a long, long fable that is intended to be a parody of spy thrillers and introduces its readers to debonair Gewinner Pearce, a homosexual Superman. Of the remaining four stories, the best is Man Bring This Up Road, a chilling confrontation between a hickory-hard, female old moneybags and an aging, importunate beach boy-which provided the theme for Williams' 1963 flop play, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore...