Word: roading
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tread & Butter. On the Belgian-Netherlands frontier, a smuggler hauling 1,700 lbs. of butter drove through customs without stopping, put the skids to customs men's attempts to catch up by sowing the road behind him with globs of butter, dumped 200 lbs. before he finally ran out of gas and surrendered...
...strength of her Academy Award for her Sayonara performance, Miyoshi began to get up to $2,500 a week for singing dates on the road. Jerry Lewis offered her $50,000 for a part in his new movie, Geisha Boy, then R. & H offered her $1,500 a week to play the part of Mei Li in Flower Drum. Pliant and outwardly submissive, yet inwardly serene and sturdy, Mei Li was Miyoshi. Now married to a former TV director, Win Opie, Miyoshi is certain that she wants to continue living in a land where it is really all right...
Travel conditions for the holidays hinge on a threatening strike at American Airlines that could seriously crowd railroads and other airlines. The weather is expected not to hinder road conditions in the Northeast...
...must convey someone the more disenchanted for having first been so strangely romantic, and it might well suggest a gifted writer's self-delusion that memory would afterward recoup with words what had been squandered on wine and women. The twists and turns along Halliday's road down remain largely uncharted. But The Disenchanted does not adulterate or gloss over. It treats writers as writers, Hollywood as Hollywood, truth as truth. It has a sense of the real thing and of what it means; it knows that, for the bedeviled writer, good intentions can be paved with hell...
...LONGEST ROAD TUNNEL in world will be carved through Mont Blanc in the Alps, will run seven miles between Italy and France, cut road distance from Paris to Milan by 194 miles. Cost: $31.6 million...