Word: roundabouts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...monster machines were busy everywhere last week. They pushed across the green pastures of Illinois, through the swamps of Florida, over the hills of Arkansas, along the rocky New England coast. Unlike the nation's earlier road builders, who often followed Indian trails, cow paths and other roundabout routes of least resistance, today's planners lay out their roads from helicopters and planes with an eye to the shortest distance, then put their machines to cutting the highways over mountains and through trackless timberland, bridging lakes and rivers, spanning cities...
...quiz shows rigged? The quiz is too big a part of TV, the stakes are too high and the industry too wise to conspire with contestants to control the outcome. But there are many roundabout ways to change the fate of any quiz whiz on the high-priced shows. In their desire to keep their audiences, many producers use odd methods both to keep and lose contestants. For a heretofore untold story of how they do it, and the answer to a question that has tickled the curiosity of millions of TV watchers, see TV & RADIO, The $60 Million Question...
...south, in the precarious artificial kingdom of Jordan, anti-Communist King Hussein, 21, failed in a roundabout maneuver to shuffle Red-leaners out of Premier Suleiman Nabulsi's cabinet. Nabulsi, 48, is the Palestinian ex-soap manufacturer who took office after pro-Nasser parties swept last October's parliamentary elections. Nabulsi refused the king's demand for his resignation and instead proclaimed that the Cabinet had voted to establish diplomatic relations with "our loyal friend, the Soviet Union." In a speech at his refugee-crammed home town of Nablus, he defended what he called his "positive neutralism...
...Americans. His lieutenants are distressed by Adenauer's recent electioneering demands for a ban on the H-bomb and a closer look at the Soviet promise to pull troops out of Central Europe. But none dared tell der Alte so to his face. Irritated by their timid, roundabout hinting, Adenauer refused to have anything to do with their debate...