Word: dot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sixteen thousand tourists made the 14-minute tour of the birthplace during June. Most of them were Texans, although out-of-state license tags dot the asphalt parking lot. They come to see some history on "a ten-minute stop off the road," and politics are unimportant to a father motioning his kids closer to the historical marker while he peers into the range finder of a camera. "You don't have to be an L.B.J. fan to come here," an Oklahoman explains...
...doggedly on to Detroit, getting arrested again on the way, and challenged the automakers to match safety mirrors with his. Four auto companies examined it, eventually turned it down. Karl was despairing when the Department of Transportation was founded. He flew back to Washington and explained his mirror to DOT. But the department seemed uninterested also...
...years were rolling by, and Karl had about given up, when DOT commissioned a research firm in Santa Monica to test the leading safety-mirror concepts. Karl's invention was among them. The report, which came out last year, said: "There is no vehicle on the road which permits maneuvers such as freeway lane changes and merges to be made as quickly, safely and with such a high degree of assurance as does the Smith car." As a result, there is a chance that a Santa Barbara firm, under contract to DOT, will build a prototype of Karl...
BARBED wire is going up in lovely Phnom-Penh. Like tentacles from the war ravaging the countryside, the prickly wire now surrounds most important government buildings. Sandbag bunkers, usually occupied by young boys or girls proudly fingering loaded U.S. carbines, dot the streets. Cambodian officers strut about with pistols hoistered on their hips...
...Wednesday morning, early-rising golfers will dot the manicured and exclusive greens of The Country Club. Those alumni who feel their sleep is more precious will join the golfers later for cocktails and lunch. While the men talk over old times, Harvard women will visit Gore Place in Waltham. Mr. Gore was an early Massachusetts governor whose home is now a showplace of American colonial architecture and styling...