Word: superhighways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jerusalem Talmud and of the common people at the time of Christ, when Hebrew was used principally by the upper classes. Maloula, isolated in the hills, held out for centuries against both the Moslem religion and the Arabic tongue. The isolation has now been broken by a nearby superhighway, but the village still evokes the mood of an ancient Christian bastion, as TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott discovered last week. His report...
...over the city, from St. Cloud to Montparnasse, from Place d'ltalie to Belleville, there are signs of building, burrowing and bulldozing. Some 60 new skyscrapers puncture a skyline once graced mainly by domes and spires; one cluster of tall buildings even crowds the Eiffel Tower. A superhighway cuts along the quai on the Right Bank of the Seine where Utrillo once painted his cityscapes while patient fishermen waited for the carp to bite. The Place Vendôme, Place de la Madeleine and the Avenue Foch have been gouged to accommodate layer on layer of cars in subterranean...
...different directions; under existing controls, they must all be funneled into the same approach track. Indeed, area navigation should be so efficient that Eastern Airlines Board Chairman Floyd Hall likens its introduction to converting "an old-fashioned horse-and-bug-gy country road into the equivalent of a superhighway with an almost unlimited number of express lanes...
...security precautions. When this groundwork (estimated cost: $900,000) had been done, the 41 crates were flown at night from Cairo in two BOAC freighters and one R.A.F. jet, then secretly whisked to the museum. Fearing hijackers, the English authorities took the extraordinary step of closing the M4 superhighway that links Heathrow to London until the unmarked vans had gone through. Such measures were compelled by the probable value of King Tut's treasure: his gold funeral mask alone, some English experts speculate, is worth over $50 million...
...issue Sturgis referred to was a 1964 MDC plan to build three underpasses under Memorial Drive to ease traffic congestion. Opponents of the plan argued that its implementation would turn Memorial Drive into a superhighway. The MDC dropped the proposal following community protests...