Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana, where a 156-mile toll road from the end of the Ohio Turnpike to the outskirts of Chicago is to be completed this fall, highway officials have arranged a series of meetings with trucking industry leaders. Truckers will be asked for their views on rates, regulations and facilities. Weeks before the road is opened Indiana will launch a promotional campaign such as Ohio is now considering, five months after its road opened. Theoretically, the best remaining route in the U.S. for a toll highway would be between Los Angeles and San Francisco, or south from Los Angeles...
...rush to superhighways, some roadmen failed to give sufficient consideration to the fact that toll roads will pay only under quite specific conditions. The Pennsylvania Turnpike (which cost less to build because it followed the half-finished roadbed of Andrew Carnegie's old South Penn Railroad) has been a huge success because it is by far the best route through rough country. The New Jersey Turnpike has boomed because it serves an area of crushingly concentrated traffic. When such important factors are missing, toll roads...
...rugged course took a toll of men and machines even before the race. A tiny (1.1-liter) Lotus bounced off a hay bale in a practice run and cartwheeled out of a sharp left turn. Its driver escaped uninjured. The oversize (4.4-liter) Ferrari belonging to Chicago's Jim Kimberly threw its flywheel...
...long day passes into night and they have all tried their escapes, they come together again to one another. The memories--Mary's wedding-dress, Edwin Booth's praise for James years ago--lie in the attic trunk above, whispering waste and despair. Love has imposed a mighty toll upon their lives, but in the end it binds them together, wracked by pity and fear. Young Edmund's hopeless citation of Nietzsche, "God is dead: of His pity for man hath God died," is forgotten. O'Neill has forgiven the Tyrones as we must forgive all mankind...
London's recording of La Forza is less successful than Turandot. Tebaldi and del Monaco are also in La Forza but they both contribute uneven performances. Although del Monaco is the outstanding Italian dramatic tenor of our day, too much forcing has taken its toll on his voice and he can no longer sustain the line as well as he should. He is still effective in declamatory passages, but the many lyric moments are sung roughly. Tebaldi tends to be shrill as Leonora, although parts of her performance are controlled and lovely. The opera itself is uneven, so the singers...