Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...every car and tractor, in every tank and plane?oil. Behind almost every lighted glass tower, giant industrial plant or little workshop, computer and moon rocket and television signal?oil. Behind fertilizers, drugs, chemicals, synthetic textiles and thousands of other products?the same substance that until recently was taken for granted as a seemingly inexhaustible and obedient treasure. Few noted the considerable historic irony that the world's most advanced civilizations depended for this treasure on countries generally considered weak, compliant and disunited. Now all that has changed, and the result has been a major economic and political dislocation throughout...
...servant of the servants of the Almighty. Even on the street, as Faisal climbs into the front seat of his white Chrysler New Yorker, he is apt to pause to listen to petitioners, some hardly more than beggars. Once, recalls an aide, his left foot was in the car, his right foot still on the ground, when a simple Bedouin began running toward him shouting, "Ya, Faisal!" (the Arab equivalent of "Hey"). Bodyguards started to chase the man, but the King stopped them. "Don't drive him away," said Faisal. "Perhaps he has something important to tell me." They...
...guards waited patiently for four hours while the intruder delivered an unintelligible harangue. When Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub Khan failed to appear, the stranger asked the Secret Service to broadcast his demand for a meeting. The guards complied, and the man listened to the message on his car radio. Then he plucked a white cloth from his pocket and waved it in the air in surrender. The guards found that he was carrying no explosives, only emergency flares...
...Thursdays," observes Architect JØrgen Andersen, 39, "it is full of architects on their way to the unemployment office." (Andersen himself will be laid off by March 1.) They are casualties of the slump in the construction industry. Other industries particularly hard hit: textiles, meat-packing and car assembly...
...woman I have been looking for. I have found her. She writes poetry, she drives a car, she smokes cigars!" The enraptured young man speaking is the son of a rich Italian landowner, played by Robert (Godfather H) De Niro, in Bernardo Bertolucci's film 1900. The object of his love is a free-spirited flapper named Ada, played by a free-spirited actress named Dominique Sanda. Sanda, 23, is irresistible to most of Europe's leading film makers: in 1970 Bertolucci gave her a starring role in The Conformist and later conceived Last Tango in Paris with...