Word: arbors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mile stretch of highway between Ann Arbor and Detroit, even housewives in curlers pretend they are Mario Andretti. But one morning last week drivers revving up for the dash to Detroit found all lanes blocked by a trio of cars traveling abreast at 55 m.p.h., the legal speed limit. Behind the wheels were Stephen W. Long, Elizabeth Ann Lipski and Bruce Nielson, three friends who had taken it upon themselves to enforce the law. Their cars were decorated with signs reading GAS SHORTAGE and STAY ALIVE...
...recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile or more and numbered some 600 cars. There was nothing illegal about what had happened. En route back to Ann Arbor, however, Lipski and Long were arrested for going too slowly in a 45 m.p.h. minimum speed zone. The charge: reckless driving...
Somewhat surprisingly, this disorganized industry has a record of technological innovation. Because of improvements in feed and genetics, a broiler now takes only seven weeks to go from egg to slaughterhouse, less than half the time it took to reach eating size a generation ago. At Connecticut's Arbor Acres Farm, geneticists foresee a six-week broiler by the early 1980s...
...Arbor, Mich...
...revealed that they had installed $10,000 worth of air-conditioning in his house as a "gift," his reply was that he did not know it was being done. Riegle will run in November against Republican Representative Marvin Esch, 49, a moderate, ten-year congressional veteran from Ann Arbor...