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American colonists used Indian trails at first, eventually widened them and straightened them as part of a network of quagmire-pocked coach roads connecting major cities along the East Coast. Not until the late 1850s, when Congress appropriated $550,000 for three wagon roads, did anyone going West from the Mississippi River have anything but trackless prairies to drive on. From then on, road networks spread like spider webs across the U.S. In 1904 the U.S. Office of Road Inquiry took a national highway census that showed 2,000,000 miles of roads, just 250 miles of them paved...
Upon a Tractor, a TV special promoting the U.N., she jumps on the Bond-wagon with a chase across several mythical countries, disguising herself as a soldier with brown wig and handlebar mustache, leaping off a pier into the Tiber River-all to elude villains long enough to plead a cause before the U.N. The real James Bond would have had no use for any one of them. He liked his girls dependent. As he observed in Goldfinger, women of the Jane Bond type are simply "unhappy sexual misfits-barren and full of frustrations, girls whose hormones have got mixed...
...political hay wagon is towards the North Harvard renewal site. And the from the tiny kite-shaped hardly a thousand feet on longest side, may prove well the pickings for certain...
...theatre, where audiences could watch plays detachedly and learn from them, was spoiled on occasion by audiences that emotionalized over his characters. He rewrote the last scene of Mother Courage so that audiences would be disgusted as his heroine, he children all killed by the war, picked up her wagon and went off following the soldiers. But the audiences wouldn't go along; they idealized Courage as they had Macheath...
Vigor, Strength & Anger. The son of Jewish emigrants who had fled czarist Russia, Goldberg grew up in poverty: his father used a wagon drawn by a blind horse to cart produce. Arthur went to Northwestern University Law School, where in 1930 he got a doctorate in jurisprudence and ranked No. 1 in his class. He got into the rugged world of labor law, in 1948 became general counsel for the C.I.O. and the United Steelworkers, helped plan the A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. On Capitol Hill he met John Kennedy; they became good friends. Later Goldberg became one of Kennedy...