Word: fender
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...traffic on the big, four-lane Santa Fe-Taos highway was fin to fender one evening last week. Five miles outside Santa Fe the line of cars turned off the highway, crept to the top of one of the low-lying foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and disgorged a crowd of dinner-jacketed men and bare-shouldered women. In the open theater on the far side of the hill, the lights were about to go up on the Southwest's first full season of resident, repertory-company opera...
...haves," and is regarded as fair game for any pilfering the locals may have in mind. Covetous eyes, unaccustomed to any luxury, gaze longingly at the University's obvious material wealth. Sometimes a theft results. Other times a youth merely crosses two wires of an open car in fender alley, starts it up, and just sits there pretending he is driving...
...Greenwich Villager who spots a discarded sewing machine, old drainpipe, truck fender or pile of angle irons these days knows just where to take it; to the cold-water flat of Sculptor-Welder Richard Stankiewicz, 34, who with little more than an acetylene torch, a welder's tools and his own vivid imagination turns junk into sculpture. Says he: "I take material that is already degenerating, flaking and rusting and then try to make something beautiful out of it. It should hit people over the head and make them ask, 'What is beauty...
...only started the process; it is what happens after the accident that has caused most of the skyrocketing costs. The price of repairing battered cars and compensating maimed humans has shot up; claims now cost an average 41% more to settle than they did five years ago. A smashed fender that once could be replaced by a simple, curved piece of metal now involves large molded panels with sculptured lights. The bumper that cost $5 in 1940 now costs $20. In the good old days of divided windshields, the company could put in a new unit for $25. Adjusters expect...
...from an entire region. Mondawmin, for example, is the most convenient retail center for 400,000 people within a 15-minute drive. With huge free parking lots laid out so that cars are never more than a few hundred feet from stores, the decentralized centers spare their customers the fender-bending frustration of wrestling cars through downtown traffic. With an eye out for women drivers, the developers of Seven Corners have even allotted 9-ft.-wide parking spaces, v. the conventional...