Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These great Roman roads of today combine half a dozen principles to achieve a qualitative advance over any earlier road system, or any foreign system. The freeway's wide median strip virtually abolishes head-on collisions and headlight glare. Passing is made so easy that one four-lane freeway can carry about ten times as many cars as two two-way roads. Freeway cloverleafs eliminate the need for intersection stopping; limited access banishes blind entrances and overly frequent inflows of traffic. Gentle grades, ample widths and curves of an easy mathematical beauty let drivers see at least twice...
...mariners puzzled over a molten glow in the eastern sky. Over the roar of the freeway, motorists heard the unmistakable crack of rifle fire, the chilling stutter of machine guns. Above city hall, billowing smoke from 1,000 fires hung like a cerement. From the air, whole sections of the sprawling city looked as if they had been blitzed...
...more positive test of his imperturbability, I invite Jim Clark [July 9] to compete in the qualifying trials held daily on any of the San Francisco Bay area courses, notably the Bay shore Highway or the Nimitz Freeway. He will then be eligible to participate in the finals on the toughest course of all-the entire Los Angeles freeway system...
...with Captain Charles Kimes, 44, a freckled, sandy-haired veteran of 16,000 flying hours who had elected to let Miller handle the takeoff. Finally, the airport tower radioed: "Clipper 843 cleared for takeoff." Thirty-five seconds later, the 266,631-lb. plane was airborne, rocketing over busy Bayshore Freeway, which borders the north end of the airport, and climbing toward a break in the hunchbacked hills of the San Francisco peninsula-and the open Pacific beyond. At that instant, Flight 843 became a nightmare...
...REVITALIZING A COMPANY: "Picasso says that creativity is a series of destructions. You really don't create anything until you knock something else out of the way. You have to tear down homes before you put in a freeway. But in professional management, and in the investment process, you recognize that you should tear down only so much before it is time to build anew, for excessive tearing down takes the destructive process beyond the realm of creativity. Something destructive goes in before the constructive comes out. The question is, how much destruction can be tolerated...