Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...private eye sometimes holes up to sleep. The TV sits humming dumbly through a test pattern that testifies to a restless night. From a wastebasket Harper retrieves some sodden coffee grounds in a filter, brews and glumly drinks a stale, disgusting cupful. Moments later, he roars along the freeway in a rattletrap sports car that has one door and fender bumped out and prime-coated-this man has been in a few scrapes before...
...doesn't work. Tom Wolfe is the prisoner of an historical minute, which, if he didn't invent it, owes much of its definition and publication to his good offices. But soon there will great big cosmic TICK-TOCK and Wolfe will be on the wrong end or the freeway and the dark side of time...
...Mainstream. Near Los Angeles, Douglas Aircraft has built a multimillion-dollar space-systems facility off Interstate 405 (the San Diego Freeway), plans to build all its new facilities near the expressway so that it can easily move personnel and material from plant to plant. Chrysler's decision to build a $50 million auto plant near remote Belvidere, Ill. (pop. 11,200), was strongly influenced by the proximity of 1-90, which connects it with Chicago and still allows quick access to the big Chrysler parts plants in Michigan...
Dallas' eight-mile Stemmons Freeway, part of 1-35E, is directly responsible for a $250 million hotel and shopping-center boom along its right of way. On I-94, which carries Detroit-Chicago traffic across 218 miles of southern Michigan, five shopping centers, 19 motels and 39 restaurants have been built around the road's 130 interchanges. The case of Valdosta, Ga. (pop. 32,700), is typical: when a section of I-75 opened three years ago, the city found itself in the mainstream of Atlanta-Miami traffic, ever since has enjoyed a tourist boom that...
...highways, as New York City has done on the westbound approach to the George Washington Bridge. Last week, following that lead, the District of Columbia granted air rights to the Department of Labor to build a $47.6 million office building that will straddle the planned Washington Inner Loop Freeway near the foot of Capitol Hill...