Word: asphaltic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking an entirely different tack from the Rockefeller men, Michigan State University researchers have at tacked both parts of the food problem at once. Borrowing the methods and materials of highway builders, they have learned to lay down underground strips of asphalt that literally pave the way for richer crops of all varieties...
...heresy. Pike and Myers have been friends since their teaching days together at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary 20 years ago. Myers' work in slum and Negro areas of Jersey City, New York and Chicago has won him the reputation of being more at home in the asphalt jungle than the pulpit. He and his wife Katie Lea had no children, but they adopted a Negro boy (now grown up and in the Peace Corps) and two Koreans. Myers has been in Michigan since 1965, took part in last year's Selma march...
...m.p.h. in neat rows of three. Suddenly, the careful symmetry became a tangle of junk. In what looked like a "dodgem" game, the track was filled with spinning, fishtailing, crashing racers. Axles and suspensions snapped, tires sailed through the air, spurts of flame from spilled fuel blossomed on the asphalt. Driver Arnie Knepper climbed from his wrecked Ford and examined a tire mark on his helmet#151;from a car that had flown over...
...city dwellers, small neighborhood playground-parks are supposed to be outdoor, year-round rooms. Some rooms! Almost invariably the floors are asphalt, the walls are chain-link fences, and for furniture there is a never-changing assortment of head-chopping swings and lethal slides. Green areas are inevitably posted with KEEP OFF THE GRASS signs; when the signs are not obeyed, the grass wears down to dirt, seemingly overnight. When these outdoor rooms are also forced to function as community centers for all ages, chaos results...
...house, added at Mrs. Astor's special request. Next comes a child-size maze made of rough concrete emblazoned with abstract symbols painted in bright primary colors. "It was all planned," says Friedberg, "as a continuous play experience, rather than a collection of static objects attached to an asphalt base...