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...London Bus Driver Albert Gunter, 46, knew that it was no dream. With 20 passengers in his double-decker bus, Albert was just starting across the draw in London's Tower Bridge, as he had hundreds of times before. Suddenly, he said later, "it seemed as though the roadway in front of me was falling away." Albert started to jam on his brakes. Then he changed his mind...
...ceiling, two feet higher than in New York's new Brooklyn-Battery tunnel. It will be more than -three times as long as the present longest highway tunnel, the 2.16-mile tube under the Mersey at Liverpool, England. A 9-ft. duct under the roadway will bring in fresh air, and a duct in the ceiling, with blowers, will take off carbon monoxide...
...lovely city of Peking had no Red Square, like Moscow's. So the Reds made one. In Gate-of-Heavenly-Peace Square, at the gates to the Forbidden City of the Manchus, where Mao now dwells in palatial simplicity, the army had laid a new roadway strong enough to sustain the crunch of parading Red tanks. Red bunting had been distributed to citizens by the bolt-even the coolies' rickshaws were red-draped. A band of 700 musicians played the new song, The East Is Red, the Sun Is Rising; schoolchildren released thousands of peace doves, which napped...
Metropolitan District Commissioner William T. Morrissey has announced that one 24-foot lane of the roadway will be opened to outbound traffic only, from Dartmouth Street to Soldiers Field Road near Boston University bridge. Exits and entrance will be at Charlesgate East and West. The inbound lane will be opened in December...
...roadway was piled with rubble, littered with the fused and twisted metal of burned trucks...