Word: roading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unrestrained rejoicing; there is the obvious danger that it will be used excessively for the sake of gimmickry or shock. But the fact is that innovation is no longer the private preserve of the art houses but a characteristic of the main-line American movie. Two for the Road, otherwise an ordinary Audrey Hepburn vehicle, has as much back-and-forth juggling of chronology as any film made by Alain Resnais-not to mention a comic acidity about marital discord that is as candid as anything the Swedes have said. Even a conspicuous failure such as John Huston...
...military establishment. Rehashing the recent Washington Peace March, he called the Pentagon the "most hideous institution on earth" and Senator Mike Mansfield the "kind of man who is the terror of our age." Guilty of "monstrous crimes" in Viet Nam, U.S. leadership, said Chomsky, is "taking the road of the Fascist aggressors of a generation...
...ROAD...
...Interstate Commerce Commission last week agreed to a railroad merger that will have everything going for it except euphony. The commission, reversing its own antimerger order of 20 months ago, approved the creation of the Great Northern Pacific & Burlington Lines, Inc. The new road fuses the present Great Northern, the Northern Pacific and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy along with smaller subsidiaries, including the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway and the Pacific Coast Railroad. With 24,600 miles of track stretching across more than a quarter of the nation, the G.N.P. & B. will be the U.S.'s longest railroad. Consolidated revenues...
Size and efficiency indeed were two elements that frightened the ICC when it first considered and turned down by a 6-to-5 vote a merger of lines that railroad men refer to as "The Northerns." The Government feared that the G.N.P. & B. would hurt competitors, notably the Milwaukee Road and the Chicago & North Western. Those two roads, which are also intent on merging, withdrew their opposition to the G.N.P. & B. after the Milwaukee was allowed access to such cities as Billings, Mont., and Portland, Ore. and to Canadian points that had all previously been terminals only of The Northerns...