Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...underrepresented businessmen. Dominant farm legislators in Delaware have maintained a law that requires a farmers' market to be situated on a main street of Wilmington. Florida's Dade County (Miami) supplies 25% of the state's gasoline-tax revenue, gets back only 4% of this for highway construction; the county has 1,000,000 people, but not one state-supported park or beach. In many states, four-lane highways connect small, out-of-the-way towns, while metropolitan areas choke on inadequate roads...
Flying in from Leopoldville, the plucky Mobutu collected as many soldiers as he could find and strode down a highway in defiance of snipers' bullets to win control of a village 25 miles south of Bukavu. "Advance! Advance! If only to save your general!" exhorted an officer. Ahead, Dearborn and Coney were making strafing passes in their T-28s to keep the rebels scattered. It worked reasonably well, but when Mobutu and the T-28s headed back for Leopoldville, the army's drive stopped, and the rebels were free to begin their marauding again...
...people at once in the driver's seat, sends them on a mock cross-country race to see who is the best driver. With a steering wheel, an accelerator and a brake to operate, the participant looks through his "windshield"-a 21-in. TV screen-onto a highway, soon finds himself swooping around curves, skidding past a train, then crash! smack into the truck ahead. The scores? Twenty-three is tops, but one fellow, who can't even drive a hard bargain, rated 19.8 just by sitting there too mixed-up to move...
...wearing a tan corduroy jacket and carrying a Bugs Bunny comic book. He had a spot of mercurochrome on one leg ("I can no longer remember which," the killer apologized in a phone call to Agence France-Presse). The boy's jacket, added the strangler, could be found along highway N306 "just before Chatillon going toward Paris." (It was.) The most convincing touch was the dialogue concerning Jean-Luc's fear of wolves. Said Jean-Luc's businessman father, "Each time my boy entered a wood, he asked that question...
...double the death rate of other passenger-car drivers. A similar report by Maine, published in April, showed a fatality rate for persons in compacts (defined as cars under 3,000 lbs.) that is 51 times as great as that of full-size cars. Studies of the California Highway Patrol found that small-car occupants suffer a far higher rate of injury or death in accidents. "Compact and foreign cars," says Michigan Highway Commissioner John C. Mackie, "may be socially desirable in some parts of the country, but they are a nuisance. Less weight and less acceleration make...