Word: toll
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massachusetts' millinery industry. She is an unabashed Massachusetts booster. At the inaugural dinner, for example, her menu consisted entirely of Massachusetts-produced foods: baked Essex clams, Suffolk celery hearts, roast. Cape Cod duckling and cranberries, mashed Middlesex squash, Norfolk tomatoes, hearts of Boston lettuce, Parker House rolls, and Toll House cookies. "There are so many things a woman can do that need to be done," Toni says. "Jackie Kennedy showed the way for the rest of us. Think of all the history here in Massachusetts and our wonderful museums. These are the things a first lady can get attention...
...Asia received $78 million from the bank, plus $163 million from its affiliate, the International Development Association. But five Latin American countries got $328 million, 60% more than in 1961. Mexico received $30.5 million to build federal toll roads and bridges, $130 million for its massive electrification program. Before Argentina's military junta deposed President Arturo Frondizi last March, the bank came through with $95 million to expand electric power in Buenos Aires. Other loans: $50 million to Colombia and $4,000,000 to Panama for electric power, $18.5 million to Uruguay for highway development. From I.D.A...
...Juan Capistrano on the way from Los Angeles to San Diego, was blotched by fog. As state cops later reconstructed it, a woman driver pulled part way off the freeway with a flat tire-setting off a chain reaction that piled car upon car for five miles. The toll: one dead (a nun riding in a car about a mile back from the first crash), two critically injured. 24 in the hospital, 25 others slightly injured. 20 cars demolished. 40 cars disabled and at least 200 cars involved...
Blasting Round the Bend. Despite the heavy traffic on the rivers, barge operators talk poor mouth out of a fear of a proposal to levy a 2?-a-gallon fuel tax on users of the waterways, which have hitherto been toll free. The rivermen are even more upset over a threat from the nation's railroads, which whenever they run parallel to barge traffic are required by federal law to charge 6% more for freight than the barges. Arguing that federal maintenance of the waterways amounts to a subsidy to barge operators, the railroads have asked ICC permission...
...fury. Prison officials pleaded with them not to attack the cell block. Instead, the guards mutinied. "Let's go, let's kill these dogs," cried a guard, and nearly 100 men charged the cellblock, bayoneting and shooting the massed prisoners. When the twelve-hour bloodbath ended, the toll stood at nine guards and 15 prisoners dead, another 25 wounded...