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From New York, go through the Holland Tunnel and take route 22 to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. From there go south on route 15 to Culpeppar, and then follow route 29 to Charlottesville, the AAA advised...
...practically bankrupt when he took office, was a sound and stable concern when he left. During his twelve years, New York built a new city prison, 67 schools, 262 playgrounds, 14 vast housing projects, two hospitals, great stretches of parkway, the Triborough and Bronx-Whitestone Bridges, the Queens-Midtown Tunnel. It bought and consolidated its subway and surface transportation systems, built miles of new underground rail lines. But he had given the city more than material benefits; he had stamped on the serpent of municipal corruption until it moved only faintly; he had proved that "reform mayors" need...
...Suddenly we were blinded by a bright glare. We had broken through into the center of the doughnut. It was like coming out of a tunnel. Wind velocity dropped at least one-half in the space of seconds. The plane righted itself and started climbing, but in a minute and a half we crossed the relative calm of the center and smashed into the other side...
Jailbait. In Philadelphia, sirens wailed and searchlights glared across Eastern State Penitentiary's front lawn as well-armed cops cautiously approached a man who was quite obviously excavating a tunnel into the prison. Things quieted down when the suspect turned out to be digging worms...
Sandhogs-the tough, clannish men who burrow tunnels and subways under rivers and streets-don't startle easily. But a contract awarded in Baltimore last week startled them. What made them blink was the name of the successful bidder: Sam Rosoff, the world's No. 1 subway builder. The job, digging a $9 million, seven-mile-long water tunnel under Baltimore, will be Rosoff's first important contract within the U.S. since 1939. Sandhogs had thought that "Subway Sam" had finished with digging...