Word: cloverleafs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Along Abidjan's wide, tree-shaded boulevards and cloverleaf expressways, new apartment houses and office buildings are rising by the score. Later this year construction will begin on the capital's biggest single project yet, part of Houphouët's plan to make Abidjan and the surrounding countryside the latest In place for the international set. Designed by Los Angeles Architect William Pereira (TIME cover, Sept. 6, 1963), it is a 10,000-acre, $300 million resort complex that will have 15 hotels, a 27-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones, four shopping centers...
...West Virginia-born "Pete" McClanahan, 33, graduated from the Cincinnati Art Academy, did displays for the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan before beginning light constructions in 1964. His classically simple Cloverleaf employs relatively elementary wiring and hidden fluorescent tubes. McClanahan believes that "the promise of light is incredible to contemplate, but it may be disastrous for some at first, until the use of the medium is mastered, as classic Oriental drawing must be mastered, by constant training...
...internal-combustion car, providing gradual curves, smooth surfaces, low grades, road markers-and some helpful innovations. One was the parkway, which was born along the Bronx River in New York's Westchester County in 1922 and pioneered the principle of separated opposing lanes. Another was the cloverleaf, the essential invention that lets traffic on two divided highways cross and merge in all possible directional combinations without interrupting flow; the first was built at Woodbridge...
...good roads also have a cost in monotony. The antiseptic highway stretches on and on and on. The green-and-white signs are the same. The little clusters of commerce-at-the-cloverleaf are eminently the same. Even the jargon on the menus of the identical restaurants ("char-broiled steak smothered in mushrooms sauteed in fresh country butter") is the same. Yet, happily enough, as the freeway driver highballs from one similar place to another, leisurely and nostalgic souls who want to sample the color and culture of America's side roads can do so readily...
...tooling along the superhighway when the signs suddenly begin to snap up before your eyes. You want to get off at the interchange. But where? There it is -no -yes -better hurry -and you spin into the cloverleaf with the sickening feeling that you're probably wrong and doomed to go miles out of your...