Word: expressway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...song of the road for truckers has become a terrifying wail to the motorist, as the former "knights of the road" cut off other vehicles, fail to yield the right of way, exceed even passenger-car speed limits and generally add to the hazards of expressway driving...
Motorists approaching an entrance ramp along Massachusetts' well-traveled Route 128 recently were pleasantly surprised at the ease with which they could enter the expressway. Instead of the usual pile-up along the ramp, car after car moved effortlessly into the mainstream of traffic. Drivers barely glanced back to look for an opening. They did not have to. Like the flashlight of a theater usher, moving green lights at the edge of the ramp led them surely and safely up and out onto the highway...
...special place in American social mythology. Its chroniclers in fiction are John Cheever and Peter De Vries, its poet laureate Phyllis McGinley. The $50,000 split level is its castle, the barbecue chef its master of the revels, the station wagon its chariot, the 8:03 or the clogged expressway its cup of doom. Few modern Americans feel much nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous element in the U.S. population...
Some participants worked out structures that use simple means to change the very mood of a city-to introduce new functions and fulfill traditional ones in more exciting ways. Neil Goodwin and John Borden, for example, designed a system of mobile vending booths because "... Government Center, the Southeast Expressway, and other 'urban renewal' in the West End of Boston have resulted in the devitalizing and deadening of a uniquely alive part of the city." Their hexagonal booths might be set up in under-utilized spaces like City Hall Plaza to dispense goods and information. Such units could provide homes...
...office-building elevators, in restaurants, on the streets, the question was everywhere: "How are they doing?" A Chicago cab driver taking a fare to O'Hare Airport near the end of Apollo's ordeal suddenly turned off the expressway and drove to the nearest tavern so that he could watch the return on TV. The passenger protested, but decided to watch also...