Word: bike
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that a bicycle's stability somehow depends on the position of the front wheel's point of contact with the ground. The rider, after all, usually steers instinctively in the direction of a potential fall, thereby moving the point of contact to one side and increasing the bike's stability. To foil that balancing act, Jones replaced the regular front wheel with a small furniture caster mounted directly in line with the steering-post axis so that turning would not shift the point of contact. Trouble was. the caster quickly became almost red-hot and could...
...Pham Hung, as he is otherwise known, is a Ho Chi Minh protégé who has been headman at COSVN since 1967. It is no surprise that "R" is hard to find; he is said to travel constantly between COSVN's different units by motor bike. Two weeks ago, U.S. troops came close to capturing an important element of the headquarters. Acting on a tip, two infantry battalions raced to a bunker complex near Mimot, only to find the place all but deserted. One wounded Communist who had been left behind told about the staff...
...biggest target of all was the automobile. In Danbury, Conn., students made ready to perform the now popular ritual of burying an internal-combustion engine. At Wayne State University they marshaled pickets for General Motors' headquarters (see BUSINESS). Alternate modes of nonpolluting transportation called for "bike-ins," balloon ascensions and pedestrian parades. Even cities joined the act. New York announced a ban on cars and the creation of pedestrian malls along 14th Street and a 45-block stretch of Fifth Avenue. Miami, never to be outdone, promised prizes to the "most polluted" floats in a huge, car-free "Dead...
Newly-elected Cambridge Mayor Alfred Vellucci will open Cambridge Bicycling Week at noon today on the Cambridge Common, following a bike parade from City Hall...
...program for the week includes the inauguration of a network of bikeways throughout Cambridge, the promulgation of safety information for bicyclists and motorists, the installment of bike-parking stands, and the sponsorship of a series of outings for riders...