Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They are generally too individualistic to work with others and cannot tolerate taking orders. When the womenfolk get work, male pride often degenerates to ire or alcoholism. The men get hooked on day-work (which they can quit easily), earning maybe $7 or $8 a day as a launderer, car washer or janitor. Or they begin hitting the bottle, hanging out in such bars as the "Country A Go-Go" (hillbilly music and rock) where they "jest set" and tip back straight shots of bourbon. Arguments start, fists and knives flail, blood is spilled. As one Appalachian woman complained recently...
...line for a Cabinet seat. Meanwhile, besides his new business, there are his three homes to attend to-an apartment in Kensington and country mansions in Shropshire and Wales-and two Shropshire dairy farms to supervise. Harlech commutes among them in a custom-built Gordon-Keeble sports car with a top speed of 140 m.p.h. (he has two warnings on his license; the third means suspension). He spends a good deal of time with his children, who are living, breathing catalogues of where the young are at. Jane, 25, the wife of the owner of a mod boutique named Hung...
...longer is horseback riding restricted to traditional horsy enclaves, dude ranches and city bridle paths; it has now massively infiltrated suburbia and even spread to blue-collar areas, where a new status symbol, instead of a second car, can be a stable alongside the garage. In Rolling Hills, on Los Angeles County's Palos Verdes Peninsula, there are now 2,000 people and 4,000 horses. In Kansas City, teen-agers ride their horses through the streets after school. In Lakewood, Colo., an unprecedented 1,100 horsemen turned up for this year's Easter parade. In California alone...
...Mass. "All you need is a couple of mallets and a hard hat." And even secretaries making $85 a week are discovering that they can buy a horse for as little as $150, feed and board him for $700 a year, or less than it costs to maintain a car...
...circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...