Word: trying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five cars on the odyssey made an odd lot. The heftiest, a four-cylinder Itala, weighed in at two tons and worked up to 40 h.p. The others: a couple of two-cylinder, 10-h.p. De Dions, a 15 h.p. Spyker, and a tiny (6 h.p.) three-wheel Tri-Contal. Before they had covered 20 miles, all the cars needed coolies to haul them most of the rest of the way to Kalgan, on the edge of the desert...
...water from their radiators to keep alive. They used blowtorches to heat their meals when they could not bear using camel dung as fuel. Bridges collapsed under them, their cars sank hub deep in mud or sand, brakes gave way and the cars slid down steep, rocky hillsides. The Tri-Contal gave up its tiny ghost, but the other four somehow made it to the Siberian border...
...happen to glance up at the wall and check your Playmate-of-the-Month tri-color calendar, you'll notice that it's May--reading period time. And if the Metaphysical Poets, the Peace of Westphalia, and Central Kitchen dietetics have furrowed your brow, and you feel you need a final fling at debauchery before the reckoning--try a day of escape at the Boston flicks...
Municipal Matters. The march of the highways is not always a boon to the small town. Hazel Crest, Ill. (pop. 4,000) has been pierced by the new Tri-State Tollway and would prefer not to have been. Reason: the town already has one of Illinois' highest tax rates and lowest school budgets. The tollway removes from the rolls property that brought an estimated $500,000 a year in taxes. Because of the tax loss, Hazel Crest schools have had to postpone plans for kindergartens and broader art, music and physical education courses. The tollway has also generated...
...whose fate is to be decided this week by a special A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee in Washington. < The eight-year-old Columbia Basin News (circ. 11,409), published in Pasco, Wash. The News has been heavily subsidized (at least $500,000) by the I.T.U., is being sued by the crusading Tri-City Herald (14,275), which charges that the I.T.U.-backed News has conspired to force it out of business...