Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Planning. Unlike Hazel Crest, Wilmington, Mass. (pop. 11,000) is delighted that Highway 93 pierces the town. Almost at the rumor stage, Wilmington four years ago began to plan for the highway, is prepared now to enjoy its benefits. The town used to lie 45 minutes from Boston by car over snaky roads; superhighway travel time is 20 minutes. Wilmington as a result is becoming a Boston bedroom. To handle the growth, the town's seven-member planning commission drew up tight zoning laws and a town meeting speedily approved them. Proper planning has already produced a bonus. Impressed...
...Angeles and Newark last week peered a most unusual cat. Topped by a high-style Emme hat, clenching a long cigarette holder suavely in its mouth, it purred a typically catty message: "I found out about Joan. That palace of theirs has wall-to-wall mortgages. And that car? Darling, that's horsepower, not earning power. They won it in a 50? raffle." The most important fact about Joan was how she managed to dress well "on his income." She shopped for her clothes at Manhattan's Ohrbach's, a low-budget department store with branches...
Business was great in January. In February, despite bad weather, it was almost great. As one exhibitor explained: "The kids got to neck somewhere, and it's too cold in a parked car...
Pole Apart. In Grand Junction, Colo., a shiny new police car drove into a municipal parking lot on a routine assignment, slowly cruised around as the driver checked the left side and his companion checked the right, smacked head-on into a telephone pole...
...Called Henry. In Mold, Wales, the Rev. Henry Rees flunked the driving-license test for the fifth time, and, according to later court testimony, vengefully struck the examiner with a car-door handle, tried to butt him in the face, kicked at his legs, cried: "I'll bloody well shoot you," paid a ?5 ($14) fine...