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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: Open Roads | 4/12/1963 | See Source »

...Harvard Debate Council returned to Cambridge by plane Saturday night after a disastrous week's trip to Northwestern University. During the week they lost not only the tournament but the Debate Council's ramshackle 1959 Volkswagen bus, which was destroyed in a crack-up on the New York Thruway early Wednesday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Debaters Wreck Car On Journey to Defeat | 2/11/1963 | See Source »

...just why the grand jury wanted to question him. In any event, he too refused to waive his immunity. Shortly before that, he resigned not only from his Republican Party post but from his state jobs as $17,000-a-year vice chairman of the New York State Thruway Authority and un-salaried chairman of the Lake George Parkway Commission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York: More to Come? | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

...buildings, past automated toll booths, in and out of sweeping cloverleafs is an experience few Europeans can farget. On the intricate stacks of downtown Los Angeles, where motorists peel off like jet fighters, on the rolling expanses of the longest toll road-the 561-mile-long New York State Thruway-U.S. drivers are routinely enjoying an achievement in engineering skill and a manifestation of public wealth unmatched anywhere else on earth. Today's superhighways cost an average $1,000,000 a mile; in downtown areas, the cost can rise to $50 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: One for the Roads | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

...drive from Manhattan to Albany in less than three hours. A man who does not 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: One for the Roads | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

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