Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Theory over Practice. The August torrent of vacationers put Europe's motor maniacs on full display. The European driver may appear to be just an exasperated fellow stuck with his underpowered four-cylinder car on an overloaded two-lane highway, but deep down inside he is Ascari lapping the pack, Rommel leading the tanks, De Gaulle thumbing his nose at the world. Driving is a sport, an intoxication, a release. It is in the blood more than in the brain, and spirit means more than skill...
...Backseat Drivers. The biggest advantage of pickup campers over trailers, aside from their greater maneuverability, is that passengers may loll comfortably in back while tooling along the highway (riding in a trailer is forbidden by many states as too dangerous). This is a boon for the driver too, since backseat drivers can only communicate with him by banging on the window or installing an intercom-though one manufacturer is considering making a truck with a roll-down back window that would allow passengers to crawl from living room to pilot's compartment...
Treasure-Trove. The divvying-up process is also based on the honor system. When Real Eight's estimated $1,000,000 in coins was divided last month, the company officials and their experts sat across the table from a highway patrolman and a couple of auditors for the state, none of whom professed to have any idea what the booty-largely consisting of pieces of eight, escudos and other gold and silver coins-might be worth. Still undivided is an estimated $500,000 in artifacts, such as gold and silver belt buckles, brooches and tie clasps, whose value...
...HIGHWAY...
...only is man building his bridges longer and stronger than ever before, he is also erecting more of them than at any other time in history. In the past six years, the U.S.'s interstate-highway program has spent $5.6 billion building almost 20,000 new bridges, will spend another $8 billion to $9 billion in the next eight years on bridge construction...