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...York State Thruway. Meandering 1,350 miles from Belém to Brasilia through the jungles and scrub of Brazil's wild interior, it is barely two lanes wide; the surface is dust in the dry season, mud in the wet, and some of the ruts could swallow a Volkswagen alive. Yet in the eyes of former President Juscelino Kubitschek, who built the road between 1956 and 1960, BR-14 is "the highway of dreams" for underdeveloped Brazil, and the means to "a new civilization on the central plateau...
Saturday's loss to the Elis before a packed house in the Nichols School Rink was a tough one to swallow. Harvard missed three clean breakaways, had shots on net to Yale's 20, and was off target with countless other tries but found goals as hard to come by as taxis in New York City...
...Your cover story on millionaires [Dec. 3] must have been a hard gulp to swallow for those who believe success is achieved by luck. These millionaires prove that success is due to the internal qualities of the individual-perseverance, determination, guts-who finds or creates opportunities in the market. To these men, I say thank you; their example gives me confidence to say that I, now a student, will become one of the "Millionaires Under 40" in the not too distant future...
...months and 131 million miles, Boeing's 727 won nothing but praise from pilots, passengers and airlines. The first American-made medium-range jet -and the first three-engine airliner the U.S. has built since the famed Ford Trimotor-it handles easily, skims like a swallow in and out of small airports, and until last August had logged an exceptional record for reliability...
...been a federal crime since 1875 (Title 18, Section 243), the Justice Department has prosecuted no one for the practice in this century. When an all-white jury recent ly acquitted Tom Coleman for killing a civil rights worker in Hayneville, Ala., Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach could only swallow hard and say: "This is the price you have to pay for the jury system, and I don't think it is too high a price to pay. The situation has changed a great deal already...