Word: skyway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ford's Magic Skyway is worth a wait of perhaps 30 minutes, on a cool day. But lines mass there as if the company were giving away Fords. The superb showmanship of putting people in new automobiles and driving them past an assemblage of plastic reptiles and plastic cavemen by Walt Disney is more than the contemporary world is able to resist. The prehistoric pageant lasts only twelve minutes. The car radio announces: "This is the world that was," and the rider swerves past little dinosaur eggs hatching before his very eyes, while off to the left...
...with a luncheon speech in Framingham, an appearance at a "silver get-acquainted tea" given by Medford St. James Church Women's Guild, a talk to a parents' group at the Wrenthem State School for retarded children. That night he attended the General Casimir Pulaski Skyway Committee banquet, held in Dorchester, quoted part of Poland's national anthem in Polish, enthusiastically danced the polka with a score of girls...
...feel the need of sleep or coffee breaks can drive from Boston to Chicago in less than 24 hours without hitting a traffic light (1,141 miles on the Massachusetts Turnpike, New York State Thruway, Garden State Parkway, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio turnpikes, Indiana Toll Road, Calumet Skyway...
...weeks later, the Cubans got together independently for four days in Room 125 of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, where they finally agreed to cooperate. The pact was sealed in a banquet room of the Skyway Motel, Miami. There, say the exiles, a CIA agent named Carr called for "democratic agreement of all present in order to choose a chief or President, who would head the provisional government later." The choice of the Revolutionary Council, as the joint Frente-M.R.P. group was named: José Miró Cardona, a man whose career has been based on mediation and compromise...