Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grandfather refuses the invitation to move into the house of his children and play the role of an "absurd martinet... Driving his Dodge touring car and wearing his gabardine topcoat and his big straw hat," he prefers to turn up at irregular intervals to visit his grandson. The adolescent, by letting himself be caught in drinking and sex orgies, tries to convince his grandfather that they have nothing in common. When he goes to bed with a respectable girl only to shock his grandfather, he succeeds in making the old man accept his assigned role in the family. The grandson...
...punishment to 24,305 children." The Dallas senior "had a good academic record, an A in conduct all the way through high school, and the kind of self-discipline that enabled him to hold down a job while going to school so that he could pay for his own car," but he parked his car in the wrong place at school and was to receive a punishment of three blows. Despite a letter of protest from the mother, which Hentoff prints in its two-page entirety, the school would not reconsider and the boy received his diploma only after agreeing...
...car families are not nearly as common as in Hinsdale, and the kind of mother who lives at the controls of her station wagon, chauffeuring around the small fry, is virtually nonexistent. Here most children walk l½ miles or farther to school. Leonore Carls, 50, shares the family Ford Consul with her husband, Hans, a Ford sales-promotion manager. As part of a car pool, he drives to work Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday; she gets the car Monday and Friday. Together, the Carlses put a total of 11,000 miles a year on their lone auto-a figure that...
After initial confusion, Philadelphians are coping with their crisis so well that they no longer seem to miss their public transportation. The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, with the aid of two banks, organized more than 1,000 car pools. Bicyclists now weave through the streets. Botany '500' is using delivery trucks to bring 300 workers to its clothing-manufacturing plant; another company has rented a fleet of private buses. ConRail, now handling double its normal number of commuters, has reactivated mothballed equipment. Municipal agencies and many firms have staggered working hours, giving employees the option to come...
County law enforcement has been lenient, with no major drug arrests for several years. Sheriff Reymundo Alvarez has only ten full-time deputies, five part-timers and one patrol car, which usually needs jumper cables to get it started, to cover 1,211 square miles. Four of the deputies cannot read or write English. "We can't do everything here," says Alvarez. "We have to escort funerals and settle family arguments and investigate accidents all over the county...