Word: asphalted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many parts of the country, agricultural acreage is taxed so heavily that farmers are being forced to sell out to developers. Thus much of the nation's bottom land is now sprouting condominiums rather than corn, and asphalt rather than asparagus. Massachusetts residents are presented with a solution: a proposal to tax agricultural and horticultural lands not on the fair market value (what it is worth to developers) but on the agricultural and horticultural value (what it is worth to the grower). The tax relief would apply to tracts larger than five acres that have been under cultivation...
...cars on Western highways these days must have writers of one sort or other behind the wheel. There is getting to be rather a literary traffic tangle in which only the best drivers-Joan Didion on the Los Angeles freeways, Ross Macdonald in the canyons, Larry McMurtry on the asphalt-beribboned deserts-can make the trip worth...
Feasible Alternatives. Another provision of the Highway Act has even more serious implications. San Antonio, Texas, has long yearned for a new 9.7-mile highway link between Interstate 34 and Interstate Loop 410. Engineers have routed the asphalt swath right through some of the city's least built-up land, which unfortunately includes about 250 acres of the heavily used Brackenridge and Olmos Basin public parks. Aroused local conservationists, while arguing unsuccessfully for another, more expensive route for the road, successfully stymied the project in court. For one thing, the proposed road violates the Transportation Act, which bans federally...
...smell of a world ripped apart hung in the air," said Mashek. "Gigantic blocks of asphalt and concrete as large as the walls of a house were strewn across the highway. Boulders lay haphazardly, and bridge structures were ripped and dangling. It was like nothing I've ever smelled before and hope to God I never do again." Another Journal reporter, Harold Higgins, stood on a bridge and watched a 30-foot house trailer "riding a wave like a surfboard." A woman reported "a Volkswagen floating down the street with the people hanging on and screaming for help...
Wallace flipped back onto the asphalt and lay there, conscious but stunned. Blood streamed from his right arm, and oozed through his shirt at the lower right ribs. Alabama State Trooper Captain E.C. Dothard, wounded in the stomach, fell in front of TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane. Near by. Secret Service Agent Nicholas Zarvos clutched a wound in his throat. Dora Thompson, a local Wallace worker, slumped to the ground with a bullet in her right leg. Billy Grammer's rendition of Under the Double Eagle stopped in mid-bar. As a blanket of police smothered Bremer, there were shrieks...