Word: asphalted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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North Carolina's addiction to dirt tracks is spreading. To avoid bankruptcy, the Myrtle Beach, S.C., raceway recently tore up its asphalt and went back to dirt; promoters up in Columbia are debating a similar move. After cutting the number of dirt tracks on its circuit to six, NASCAR now wants to add new ones...
...Such asphalt visionaries may be better off restricting their rural fantasies to improved air quality. Good ol' country living now suffers from that big-city disease known as a rising crime rate, according to the FBI'S annual Uniform Crime Reports released last week. In rural areas, serious crime-murder, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny and theft-was up 8% in 1975. That increase was a percentage point higher than the crime rise in large cities (pop. over 250,000). Things were even worse in the suburbs, which racked up a 10% increase over 1974. There...
STREET ENTERTAINMENT. New York has enough street musicians to people-and entertain-a convention hall. Their fare is gratis-and sometimes worth even less. Yet a few rate an earing and eying-among them, the Wretched Refuse, a conglomerate of nine fine instrumentalists who specialize in asphalt bluegrass. Sugar Blue, a black harmonica player who plies his tunes in Greenwich Village, may be the best itinerant musician in New York. Around Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall, less prominent and more indigent fiddlers than those indoors make Brahms burst in midair, usually by tuning their violins up a tone to make...
...building a system of second-story walkways so that people can stroll among six city blocks without ever going outside; Minneapolis already has a similar skywalk. New York is chipping at its concrete canyons with vest-pocket parks, small oases of greenery and water amid the granite, glass and asphalt. Most U.S. cities have become aware of the humanizing influence of gardens, fountains, plazas and intimate shopping arcades-all a recovered legacy from Europe...
...Jersey; his prospects in Maryland and Delaware would be very slim. Ford would probably not win these states either, but he would make it a closer fight and might just take New Jersey. Voters in this region consider Reagan to be too conservative, too disdainful of the asphalt agonies of Buffalo, Newark, Philadelphia and New York. Ford finally did help keep New York afloat, and he is considered safe and sensible on foreign policy. Party leaders are petrified that Reagan would drag other Republicans to defeat. Says one state chairman: "It would be an absolute disaster for us." Adds...