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...must tackle a vast backlog of "renovation," in a favorite Gaullist phrase, before the nation can hope for new housing, adequate schools, modern highways. Half the houses in France do not have running water. For France's 6,200,000 cars there are only 125 miles of divided parkway, one main north-south artery and, seemingly, not a single vacant parking space in Paris. Urgently needed school modernization programs are bogged down in age-old religious squabbles. Potentially productive farm land is unused for lack of regional development schemes such as dams. A medieval distributive system raises the price...
...most restless-of the Governor's three sons and two daughters. In undergraduate days at Harvard he sometimes submerged his restlessness in speed; he was flagged down once by Maine police for racing 80 m.p.h. on the Maine Turnpike; another time troopers caught him speeding on a Connecticut parkway near Berlin. Summer vacations Mike worked for a Puerto Rican supermarket or worked as a hand on the Rockefellers' Venezuelan ranch. He knew he would have to settle down, and he pointed toward Harvard Business School and a career in finance. But first, he wanted one real fling. Graduating...
...Albany in less than three hours. A man who does not feel the need of sleep or coffee breaks can drive from Boston to Chicago in less than 24 hours without hitting a traffic light (1,141 miles on the Massachusetts Turnpike, New York State Thruway, Garden State Parkway, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio turnpikes, Indiana Toll Road, Calumet Skyway...
...American Shakespeare Festival (Stratford, Conn., Exit 52 from the Connecticut Trunpike or Exits 51 or 53 from the Merritt Parkway--ED 7-4456 in Stratford) presents a repertory of three Shakespearean plays: Macbeth, As you Like It, and Troilus and Cressids, alternating Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 8:30 p.m.; Wednesdays, Saturday, and Sunday afternoon at 3 p.m. Starring in the productions are Jessica Tandy as Lady Macbeth, Pat Hingle at Macbeth, and Kim Hunter as Rosalind...
...Note: The drive to the picturesque Stratford grounds by the Housatonic takes just under three hours via the Massachusetts Turnpike and Exit 53 from the Merritt Parkway. There are free outdoor facilities for picknickers...