Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refuses to go after the mass market. Porsche owners are such as Elke Sommer, Herbert von Karajan, Prince Rainier, Ingemar Johansson, Juan Carlos of Spain and Krupp Heir Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach. Like Porsche owners everywhere, they flick their headlights in salute as they pass on the highway, even at 100 m.p.h. U.S. highways now boast 29,000 Porsches, and half of Porsche's production is sold in the U.S.; demand is so strong that U.S. buyers must now wait two to three months for delivery...
...past decades, pessimists delighted in predicting that the U.S.'s automobile explosion would eventually overtake the country's highway system and bring traffic to a full stop. They did not allow for U.S. enterprise. On the East Coast, the continent's most congested traffic corridor and the world's biggest urban sprawl, a motorist can now whip along the 435-mile route between Washington and Boston without ever encountering a stop light...
...West, which is still a few paces behind in the interstate highway race, is closing fast. In the 1970s, a relentless roadrunner will be able to travel nearly 1,500 miles from Vancouver to Tijuana without ever seeing...
Therapeutic Scenery. By this time, Johnson was back in harness, pulling forward rather than looking back. He signed some more bills in private, met with Cabinet officials, and presided at his first postoperative public ceremony, signing the $320 million Highway Beautification Act, otherwise known as "Lady Bird's bill." The First Lady got the first pen-and a smooch. Johnson observed there was "no better medicine" for him than the unobstructed view of fall foliage on his ride back from the hospital...
...track and a railway yard. The Lao Kay-Lang Son line is the only rail link between Red China's Yunnan province and the rest of China, and with the U.S. hitting it twice a week since Sept. 4, all traffic to Yunnan is now moving by highway or air. So far, Peking has not retaliated. "We figured it was a pretty good calculated risk," says a military spokesman...