Word: highway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...predictions of mayhem on the highway on H-day, the elaborate preparations were well worth the $120 million that they cost motorists in special taxes. Aside from a few bent fenders and dented egos, the change was, in fact, so bloodless that two days passed before Sweden reported a single traffic fatality...
...garret inventor is apt to be about as calm as a Rube Goldberg machine going double time. Denmark's Karl Kroyer is a different sort. Last week, shortly after New York's Martin Marietta Corp. snapped up the rights to make a Kroyer-patented, skid-resistant highway surface called Syno-pal in the U.S., the Dane seemed downright bored. "To make an invention is an intoxication," said he. "But the rest -to make it work, start production and complete negotiations-is one big hangover...
...Jarrell at 51 was killed by a truck while walking on a highway near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he had ?. lived and taught for many years. In a touching memoir, his widow recalls the "desperate valor" with which he faced the final nervous breakdown before his death. He was "granted a few magic weeks" in which "poems flew at him, short ones, quatrains, haiku, aphorisms, parts of speech, parts of poems, ideas for poems, until just words beat at his head like many wings...
...million. So far, in the cooling aftermath of riot, insurance companies are processing only $84 million worth of damage claims, and the overall loss is now put at $144 million. For newsmen, the National Safety Council issues forecasts of expected highway deaths over holiday weekends, usually with a prediction tacked on of "record fatalities." What the forecast never says is that the record is due to population increases and wider use of automobiles, and that the fatality rate is usually just as high proportionately on other weekends-holiday weekends are just a bit longer...
Whipping along an Indiana highway at about 115 m.p.h., Michael Bigham's 1960 Chevrolet Impala smashed into the rear of a car going 55. Since Bigham was clearly liable for the accident, his insurance company settled with the injured driver and passengers in the other car. But one passenger was not satisfied. Contending that the manufacturer "should have foreseen that the auto mobile would, in fact, be driven at excessive and unlawful speed to the risk of the public," Philip Michael Schemel sued General Motors on the un usual ground of negligence in building a vehicle that would...