Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tooling along the freeway at rush hour, with cars whooshing around him like jet-propelled lemmings, the home-bound commuter is 20.34 minutes from the carport when glunk!-his engine expires. Or else sudden snow turns a mountain road to meringue, or the fuel gauge comes up E in the midst of the desert, 25 miles after that road sign...
...glue, was long a low-prestige commodity used chiefly in such things as panel doors, ping-pong tables and bureau-drawer bottoms. No longer. Glamorized almost beyond recognition, it has taken on fancy surfaces, been merged with other materials and found its way into such diverse places as giant freeway signs, the stands for Lyndon Johnson's Inauguration and the outside walls of a 24-story building in San Francisco. Demand for plywood has doubled in the past seven years, and this year the $1 billion industry expects to sell a record 13 billion sq. ft. To keep...
...most perceptive books about the Republic (The American Character, Government of the People) by any British author since Lord Bryce. In this discursive, diverting collection of essays, Brogan discusses the Civil War, Henry Adams, Teddy Roosevelt, and Dwight Eisenhower. He is surprisingly tolerant of such institutions as the freeway, perhaps overgenerous in ascribing to U.S. foreign policy a kind of global Good Samaritanism. But Brogan also avuncularly warns that from Africa to Asia, "very imperfect solutions are all that can be hoped for, and the pursuit of perfection can end-and usually will end-in deception and disillusion...
...object had landed on the wing. Just then Santa Claus burst forth from the cockpit and chortled down the aisle, dispensing good cheer to all. Santa was actually taking part in a fierce dogfight for mastery of the sky on the world's most heavily traveled aerial freeway. More than 1,800,000 passengers flew on the 347-mile corridor between San Francisco and Los Angeles in 1963, some quarter of a million more than on the second-place New York-Boston run, and the 1964 total will exceed 2,000,000. The route is so lucrative that four...
...lack in open space, we will make up in convenience." Two Stories High. The third of the three top urban renewal men in the U.S. is San Francisco's pragmatic, perceptive and somewhat excitable M. Justin Herman. San Franciscans were shocked into action by the state-built Embarcadero Freeway, which they discovered was barreling along the edge of town, cutting off the view of their cherished waterfront. The resultant outcry halted the expressway (which now leads to nothing in particular), and incidentally aroused the city's leaders into more organized and enlightened planning. Herman presides over 991 acres...