Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...early morning after the Central Park gun battle, Saidallah Sirhan, 36, brother of Robert Kennedy's accused assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, pulled in to the Pasadena police station and said that while he was driving home on the Pasadena Freeway, someone had fired twice on his car after it was boxed in by two other cars. Police found two .38-cal. slugs embedded in Sirhan's 1955 De Soto. But some police officers were skeptical of Sirhan's tale...
...because of dwindling passenger revenues and high taxes on central-city terminals, air rights have been an obvious and highly welcome windfall. Now state and local governments, equally in need of new sources of money, are also getting into the act. One way is by selling air rights above freeways, which often cut wide swaths across land that once yielded badly needed taxes. Cincinnati, for example, has sold air rights over a stretch of interstate highway to Western & Southern Life Insurance Co. Even in Los Angeles, which still has plenty of open space, governmental agencies are studying plans for permitting...
...beach. He thought "crazy," and wished for enough $100 bills to fill it. And shazam-it was filled. He started on a third wish-should it be women, fame? These he could buy. So he decided to save the third wish, and drove that Cad down the freeway. Feeling extra good, he started singing along with the radio, which just happened to be airing a commercial: "O, I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener...
...appearances in Los Angeles tied up traffic on the Hollywood Freeway for hours. He drew an overflow crowd of 12,000 at Brigham Young University in conservative Utah, even though campus authorities declined to cancel classes for the occasion. In Lincoln, Neb., he attracted the biggest political audience (12,000) since Dwight Eisenhower stopped there 16 years...
Thanks to some of the most elaborate security measures in memory, there were no crowds on hand to greet Lyndon Johnson last week as a six-car procession bore him down Stemmons Freeway on his first visit to Dallas since Nov. 22, 1963. At the Texas School Book Depository, on his route, shades masked the sixth-floor window from which Lee Harvey Oswald fired the bullets that killed John F. Kennedy. As his aquamarine limousine passed within 200 yards of the building, the President also seemed determined to curtain his memories of that terrible day and spot. With Daughter Luci...