Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Invariably, the unemployed complain of the boredom and tensions of enforced idleness. They spend the first weeks off the job doing all the long-put-off chores-fixing up the house, puttering with the car. But after a while everything is fixed, and there is nothing to do. Says Dave Lee, 25, who lost his job with a window manufacturer in Bayport, Minn.: "I read magazines, I wash the car, I help my wife clean, I shovel snow. I just try to pass the time. It's 24 hours a day, and it's terrible...
...again San Francisco Examiner Editor Randolph Hearst found himself printing news about one of his own daughters. And again the news was bad. While entering the U.S. from Canada, Anne Hearst, 19, younger sister of Fugitive Patty Hearst, was stopped by customs officials in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and her car and its occupants searched. Agents found a plastic bag containing a dozen amphetamine tablets stuffed in the sock of Anne's driving companion, Donald Moffett, 21, and promptly arrested the pair for possession of dangerous drugs. U.S. federal agents rushed to the scene, hoping Anne could provide information about...
Will bike riders opt for the safe bikeways if it means taking a longer route to their destinations? To find out, Leclerc is now setting up a test bicycle path alongside a heavily used downtown street. But he is already convinced that "a bike should become a second car -perfect for cities...
...Chicago and grew up on a street that was named after the male side of his lineage. His grandfather, whom Fisher characterizes as a "prickly sort of character, a muckraker," made his name in the 1890s in Chicago by wrenching the foul control of the traction-barons, or street-car franchises, off City Hall. And because President William Howard Taft wanted a man who was as "pure as a hound's tooth," as Frank Fisher tells it, to head the Department of the Interior, he went to the provinces and summoned Walter L. Fisher. Walter T. Fisher '13 also made...
...surprised, "I can't see how the money has influenced me at all." Now it was my turn to be surprised. "You haven't done anything at all with any of your money?" I asked incredulously. "I live at home with my family and I don't need a car because I won one, you know," Evert said. "I just put it in the bank...