Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...place is the Livermore Amador Valley of California, a community of split-level haciendas 40 freeway minutes from San Francisco. It is suburbia, the material goal men seem to have been inching toward ever since Neanderthal times. For Americans it is the last flush card of the New Deal. "We're really happy. Our kids are healthy, we eat good food and we have a really nice home," say Mom and Dad. The statement is as matter-of-fact as a fried...
...Another alternative solution to the impending gasoline shortage is statutory lowering of freeway speed limits. I would prefer a few more driving hours to missing a trip this summer because I cannot purchase sufficient gasoline...
...should never have been released was once strongly implied by Bunyard himself. In 1967, as he walked out of the San Mateo honor camp, he told an officer: "I don't want to go out there. I feel like a puppy that you're putting on the freeway. I don't think I can make it out there." Eventually the puppy turned into a monster. Found in his apartment last week was a sketch pad on which Bunyard had drawn pictures of a man with an animal head cutting up human bodies...
...someone had pushed him from the wings, took Heston's place-and immediately ran into trouble with his cue cards. "This isn't my bag, man," he complained to the cameras shortly before Heston, who had been delayed by a flat tire on the Hollywood Freeway, relieved him. And so the night digressed...
...oilman," he insists, "I am a professional manager. Hopefully, I will be able to be very objective and view all sides." To bolster his hope, he cites his travel experiences: "I have flown a million miles on commercial airlines, and I have sat on the Harbor Freeway for an hour at a time in traffic jams...