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...continues to flourish, the U.S. economy can gradually eliminate many of the shortages of 1955. As part of the effort to solve its awesome shortage of highways, New York state last week opened a new, three-mile bridge across the Hudson River's Tappan Zee, 18 miles north of Manhattan, bringing near to completion the longest single express highway in the world, the 427-mile, $1 billion Buffalo-to-Manhattan thruway. Even the shortage of highways may some day be solved, impossible as that may seem...
...mustard-colored uniforms, who control both the brothels and the police of Saigon under a handy arrangement with the absentee chief of state, Bao Dai. Their commander, General Le Van Vien, was once a river pirate. Pronounced 'n go (as in come 'n go) din d'zee...
...capture the affections of naive Rose Marie. This is singularly ungratifying because besides being a poacher and corrupter of the wilderness, he is two-timing a cute little Indian bump and grind dancer named Jane Grey. It might be said with some justification here that Lamas, "who loves zee woods, and cannot stond zee ceeties and zee thought of zee zame ever'day", does not quite come across as a lover of the aesthetic. Even when he answers Ann Blyth's plaintive "Indian Love Call" with an "oo,hoo,hoo,hoo,hoo", it sounds like he is sneering...
...Idiots," stormed Mme. Mustafa el Nahas at her husband's Cabinet ministers. "You join Cabinets and come out poor. You should make a fortune." Zee-zee, a plump girl with a hard eye, showed them how. In a few years she transformed a miserly monthly inheritance of ?4 ($11.50) and her Premier-husband's moderate salary into a fortune in millions, hundreds of fertile acres and a gleaming yacht. Senile Safsaf, as her husband was called, a onetime fellah who rose to boss Egypt's Wafd Party, blossomed out in Sulka ties, hired a valet, vacationed...
...Belgium and northern France, and the southeastern coasts of England. Pushing at the mouths of rivers and canals, the wind-driven tides drove floodwaters far inland-across 40 miles of The Netherlands in some areas, even into Germany as far as Düsseldorf (90 miles from the Zuider Zee), well up England's Thames into the streets of London's suburbs...