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Even before its formal opening, the Ohio Turnpike held records. It is the longest stretch of superhighway ever completed at one time; of all the major postwar U.S. turnpike projects, it is the first ever finished entirely on schedule and within its cost estimates. Unexpectedly, the Turnpike Commission ended up with money to spare, although construction ran to $1,350,000 per mile (seeding grass alone cost...
...Using two different teams and alternating them each quarter, Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkinson successfully held off the best Pitt football team in years, extended the country's longest winning streak to 21 games as his Sooners...
...President Harold W. Dodds pooh-poohed rumors that he might retire in June by announcing that he will retire at the end of the 1957 academic year, by which time he will have reached the university's obligatory retirement age of 68 and been president for 24 years, longest term of any Princeton prexy...
...Adenauer was grim and weary. "I think it was the longest trip I ever made," he told a confidant, and he did not sound much like the Chancellor who had left six days before with an air of confident self-sufficiency and diplomatic strength. To reporters he talked almost like a man with something to apologize for. "Take into consideration that the Soviet Union covers one-sixth of the earth's surface . . ." he said. "The conference was overshadowed by the memories of the last war.* It was not like other conferences. Passions, not rule of logic, played the predominant...
Angry Cabinet. Violence in North Africa was matched by unseemly vacillation in Paris. Fumbling for a political solution to Morocco's dynastic question, Premier Edgar Faure presided at a bitter twelve-hour Cabinet session-the longest anyone in Paris could remember. Faure asked the conservatives in his right-center coalition to accept the "double dismissal plan" he had worked out with Morocco's leaders (TIME, Sept. 5). The hardest man to convince was Faure's own Foreign Minister, Antoine Pinay, whose right-wing Independents are strongly influenced by the pro-colon lobby in the French National Assembly...