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Double Play. In Old Saybrook, Conn., highway police stopped and questioned Motorist Edward R. Bouthiette for failure to pay a bridge toll, arrested him when they found that he was driving a stolen car, returned it to Rightful Owner Chester Jackson and arrested him, too, for ignoring six parking tickets...
...size, cried New York Traffic Commissioner T. T. Wiley, would be "sheer madness." Auto makers have "gone on a horsepower jag . . . as insidious as dope." Added Denver's Traffic Engineer Jack Bruce: "We're running 300-h.p. cars on 50-h.p. streets." But despite the highway toll, the cold fact is that safety on the road is greater now than it was before World War II. In 1937, when horsepower was pushing the 60s, there were 39,643 traffic fatalities in the U.S., or 13.3 deaths for every 10,000 passenger vehicles on the road...
SUPER-HIGHWAY TRAVEL is growing so fast that the three-year-old, 118-mile New Jersey Turnpike is already obsolete. The $255 million toll road is now carrying the traffic load (102,000 cars on busy days) originally estimated for 1981, will have to be widened from four to six lanes along most of its length, at a cost of $26 million...
...time it gets to Congress in January. General Lucius B. Clay, boss of the President's advisory committee, thinks that the first goal was too high, will recommend a $26 billion program to be financed by federal revenue bonds over a 30-year period instead of toll charges...
...days later, Lebanon's horrified Christian President and Moslem Premier met, agreed unanimously to ask the Parliament to ban all further outdoor religious ceremonies. And from now on, they agreed, between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m., no churchbells would be allowed to toll, or loudspeakers to crackle from minarets...