Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thursday afternoon, just before practice, two year letterman Barth Royer revealed that doctors had forbidden him to play for the rest of the season. And tonight, the Crimson faces one of New England's better small college teams, Springfield, in the second contest of a four-game road trip...
Every mile has been bitterly contested. Incorporated in 1960 by businessmen in and around Odessa, the Permian Basin petitioned the ICC in 1963 for approval to begin construction. Backers argued that their road would provide vital services for farmers and merchants in lonely West Texas. They argued that the line would show profits in only five years by hauling grain, sugar beets, iron ore, oil, castor beans, peaches, potatoes and cotton to Odessa and Seagraves for transshipment to major markets...
...road's jubilant backers are already busy blueprinting operations. At first, the Permian Basin will use three or four rented diesels on a single track. It will connect with the Santa Fe at Seagraves, with the T & P at Odessa, and along the way make stops at Andrews (pop. 11,000) and Seminole (pop. 6,000). It will have only 50 employees, but it will be highly automated. The founders are confident that it will not only make money hauling commodities out of the area, but more important, attract new industry...
Yellow Submarine--A good cartoon about the Beatles not to be confused either with The Road Runner or Joyce's Ulysses. The drawing leans overly on contemporary advertising art, but the 85 minutes are provocative and occasionally moving. At the BEACON HILL, Tremont between Beacon St. & ovt. Center (227-6676).PANTAGLEIZE? Dunster Drama. Revolution...
McCoy said he was not surprised at the student demonstrations which have followed in the wake of the teacher strike settlement. "Once these kids realize the inferior education they're getting, they may well become revolutionaries. Their parents are already on that road," he said...