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According to a district supervisor of the MBTA who was standing vigil at the Square during rush-hour yesterday, the buses are having no trouble with the new system. But the passengers are somewhat less pleased. "For 15 or 20 years the Belmont bus has left from that spot right there," one irritated passenger said, "and now I haven't any idea how to find...
With Wally and Tom in one car and the inspectors following, the trail led through Manhattan's afternoon rush-hour snarl, through the Lincoln Tunnel (no radio reception there), down the New Jersey Turnpike to Newark Airport. All evening and most of the night, the tailing went on, from scruffy diners to B-girl bars, across Hackensack Meadows on Fish House Road, around rail-truck terminals. In the long hide-and-seek, the cars got separated, and the chief feared for Wally's life. But Wally played his part well. He later emerged with a carton of counterfeit...
...extraordinary 1966 economic growth rate of 10%, helped out by a bumper harvest of wheat, corn and sugar beets, plus a surging production of ships, chemicals and petroleum derivatives. A boom has its price, of course: many Yugoslav cities are for the first time experiencing the agonies of rush-hour traffic jams, packed restaurants and overcrowded shops (workers recently shifted from a sixto a five-day week). Nowadays, Tito can even afford the capitalist luxury of strikes-some 700 of them in the last three years, mostly for higher wages...
...Hooray for Mayor Yorty and Los Angeles [Sept. 2]! Even during rush-hour traffic on a smoggy day, I think I'm lucky to live in this beautiful city...
...earlier parties. The ceremony will take place in Washington's huge Roman Catholic Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, but invitations were limited by the President's wish that all their guests be invited both to the church and to the reception, and the White House resembles a rush-hour subway when more than 1,000 people invade...