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...that it was to come on. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority withdrew a scheduled $440 million of income tax-exempt bonds because the only bid from underwriters meant a 4.23% interest rate, quite a bit more than had been expected. The bonds would have financed doubling the six-lane width of the 30 miles of turnpike nearest to New York City...
...week's Paris Auto Show: a new Rolls so thoroughly restyled that only the classic radiator grille, though lower and squarer, remains to recall the car's lineage. Rolls designers have chopped off 7 in. in length, 5 in. in height and 31 in. in width from the dimensions of the car's proud predecessor, the Silver Cloud. They have abandoned the old boxy profile in favor of a more streamlined look, redesigned the side slabs so that they extend in an unbroken line from front to rear...
Rebellious Reporters. From California to Florida, composing rooms are humming and clicking to the tune of modern electronics. No longer must a printer justify lines by hand -expanding or contracting them to fit the width of a column. Nor need he worry about hyphenating words. Instead, a typist punches out a tape that is then fed into a computer. Out comes another tape, this one justified and hyphenated, ready to be fed into an automatic high-speed typesetter...
...ascent into heaven through the refining fires of purgatory, has been widely considered the greatest poem ever composed; and its author has been virtually deified by the critics. T. S. Eliot pronounced him "the most universal of poets in the modern languages," and added: "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion; Dante the greatest altitude and greatest depth. They divide the modern world between them; there is no third...
There have also been width problems. Harvard tried to buy the adjacent land for $100,000; but the owner, a college teacher and former Harvard M.A., refused to sell unless Harvard gave him an honorary Ph.D. "The owner," Babcock said, "refused to leave his house as long as the tree in front of it stood that tree. But the University may get the property soon. The tree died last summer...