Word: freeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fixing his car. The laborer was almost inexcusably naive. He spent $750 for repairs and parts, including a different engine and two separate transmissions. After all that, the car would go no faster than 30 m.p.h.; the owner got one traffic ticket for driving too slowly on a freeway and another because the car was smoking. And because he took too much time off from his job to fuss with the jalopy, he was fired...
Best of all, Bynum says, there would be no foreseeable shortage of materials for the improved roads. Combined with asphalt, the old tires and bottles disposed of in 1970 could pave a freeway that would span the U.S. 23 times...
...black hip-hugging bell-bottoms and tan suede shoes, he is more Ralph the Rapscallion, enjoying "the usual recreations of a young man." As speedy behind the wheel as he is on the track, he was hauled in last year for gunning his Chevelle Malibu down the San Diego freeway at 100 m.p.h. Two weeks ago, after setting a meet record in the half mile at Manhattan's Millrose Games, he jetted to Mexico City to visit a girl, returned just in time to set another meet record for 1,000 yds. in Toronto's Maple Leaf Games...
...needed some gas before we got to the freeway. We pulled into a service station, and the three others slid out of the car to take care of things. Not feeling particularly mobile, I pushed back the reclining passenger seat (a standard feature on the 1970 Volvo), put my feet up on the dashboard, and turned to L. A.'s psychedelic station on the FM radio. I closed my eyes and listened to Al Kooper's guitar, clasping my hands on my well-packed gut and thinking about the bargain I'd won that...
There was no conversation as we wound our way through the outskirts of San Diego to the freeway. I looked over to the driver...