Word: stops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard may not have been able to stop Princeton's march to the Ivy football title, but if the trend in last weekends' Ivy games holds for two more weeks, the tiger may find itself scarped instead of crowned...
...past decades, pessimists delighted in predicting that the U.S.'s automobile explosion would eventually overtake the country's highway system and bring traffic to a full stop. They did not allow for U.S. enterprise. On the East Coast, the continent's most congested traffic corridor and the world's biggest urban sprawl, a motorist can now whip along the 435-mile route between Washington and Boston without ever encountering a stop light...
This Detroit daydream come true was made possible last week by the opening of a new superhighway that bypasses "Gasoline Alley," an elevenmile stretch of road south of Hartford with 18 stop lights and heavy local traffic, lined on both sides with aluminum diners, neon-lit drive-ins and stucco motels...
Elsewhere, the road ahead looks equally bright. There is not a single stop light on the highways linking Cleveland to Boston (650 miles), St. Louis to Wichita Falls, Texas (658), and Macon, Ga., to Miami (580). The record for uninterrupted travel between major cities, however, still belongs to the New York-to-Chicago stretch. For 845 miles -through the connecting expressways and turnpikes of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois-there is nothing to make a motorist brake except fatigue, an emptying gas tank, a toll station, or a state trooper...
...result last week was one of the merriest fund-raising functions ever. At San Diego's community auditorium, the auction was set in motion at 7:30 p.m. by COMBO President Robert Peterson and did not stop until the last thump of the gavel at 3:30 a.m. Meanwhile, 750 diners ate, drank, laughed and shouted themselves hoarse...