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...York. Cray persuaded him to ride instead in the Cadillac "in utter peace and quiet." Sedov produced a couple of nuggets for Science Editor Jonathan Norton Leonard's cover story. In turn, the Soviet scientist and his companions seemed fascinated by the ride, particularly with the automated Thruway toll booths which respond to dropped quarters with flashing "Thank You" signs...
...night that shadows Harlem's filth and fear, two 1960 Ford station wagons raced north on the New York State Thruway toward Tarrytown and the comfortable hilltop home of James Arthur Vaus Jr., an ex-convict once known as a wiretapper for West Coast Gangster Mickey Cohen. From the 'cars sprang a group of boys representing two rival East Harlem street gangs, the Young Conceiteds and the Untouchables. They swaggered to the front door, where waited Vaus, 41, and his first lieutenant, a Puerto Rican named Piri Thomas. 32. who once served six years for shooting...
...wives accompanied them. A neat square of ink blotted out the "Mrs." on the hotel bills that were submitted for payment. Members of the same committee, accompanied by a few wives, appeared in Manhattan again to stay at the fashionable Plaza to "study" New York's harbor and thruway...
...standards of the New York Thruway, Formosa's cross-island highway, totaling some 200 miles, is no cloverleaf designer's dream. Only 12 ft. wide and gravel-surfaced most of the way. it is restricted to alternating one-way traffic with cutoffs for passing. Traffic moves at a maximum speed of 15 m.p.h. To build it, the government mobilized more than 12,000 workers. Hanging by ropes over the edges of thousand-foot cliffs, workmen planted dynamite, then with pick and shovel carved the highway into near-vertical rock faces. All told, the road required 61 bridges...
Even so, Coach Schwartzwalder took his lumps until the early '50s, when independent Syracuse (enrollment: 7,000) decided to go big time. Counting on the New York Thruway to bring new fans to the stadium, Syracuse gave Schwartzwalder authority and money to recruit some shock troops ("If we can get 'em, we can coach 'em"). In 1953 a Negro halfback named Jimmy Brown showed up unannounced, went on to become the finest running back in the game (he now leads the pros as a Cleveland Brown), and in no time Schwartzwalder and Syracuse were rising toward...