Word: driveways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have heard that Briggs cage will not be ready in time for the 1981-82 Harvard basketball season, and I have a solution. I live less than a mile from Harvard Square and I have a hoop (with a new net) in my driveway. Would the team like to play there until its new home is ready? I can paint a stripe on for the foul line, so let me know. --A Solution from Somerville...
...gentle tweak of a steel wheel not much bigger than a silver dollar points Cavalier's snout in a fresh direction with the ease of a Cadillac swinging into a country-club driveway. Wooden helms are fast becoming museum pieces, like so many vestiges of wind-sailing days. Crews no longer wash then-clothes in deck buckets, they toss them in washers and dryers. Gone are the iceboxes and worries about the food spoiling...
Years later, FROT gave way to GARP, resulting in honking by tailing motorists and notes under the windshield wipers. Recalls the motorist: "It was like driving around with a sign on your head." The big, blue '78 Checker and white '79 Volvo now in the driveway carry impersonal numbers. The old green and white vanity plates hang at casual angles on a small shed at one end of Irving's swimming pool...
...Hinckleys traded up: they moved to Highland Park, the neighborhood-of-choice for haute Dallas. The house on Beverly Drive where John Jr. spent the years of his adolescence is large, with a sweeping circular driveway in front and a swimming pool out back...
...Angeles office, suggests that whenever possible, the President should exit a hotel or auditorium through a basement garage. The Secret Service argues that the President risks being trapped in a basement garage, and so prefers ushering him through an exit that leads to an open driveway-and the waiting limousine. Others recommend that the Secret Service start closing off streets around the exit to all spectators; some even suggest that the President entirely stop mingling and shaking hands with onlookers. Says Chicago Police Superintendent Richard Brzeczek: "It's time to consider keeping some distance between crowds and the President...