Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...parish is narrow and looks a bit like the toe of boot-shaped Louisiana being dipped into the gulf. Its highest points are the spines of levees that hold back the river and salt marshes from the 10% of the parish that is dry land. The main highway, Louisiana Route 23, hugging the river's west bank, runs past wooden stands where home-grown oranges are sold and small mountain ranges of lemony-colored sulfur waiting to be loaded on ships...
...York has regained a kind of vivacious equilibrium, how long can it last? The city is painfully dependent on the good fortunes of the national economy. New York City, the strictly physical plant, is in a state of appalling neglect. The West Side Highway has literally fallen apart. Despite some renovations, the city's housing stock is in disastrous condition, especially in slums...
...story on the resurgence of the K.K.K. apparently provoked the brick throwing and crossburning that have left the office with half its front window boarded. Mississippi Governor Cliff Finch called Minor a "political assassin" over another story, on an automobile accident; the highway patrol car in which Finch was riding bumped a black youth on a motorcycle, and the police report was buried until Minor received one of the dozen or so tips he gets each day. The Finch administration has been the target of Minor's reports of slush funds and campaign contributions from out-of-state engineers...
More often, police are victims of the rising freeway fury. Last year 413 California highway patrolmen were attacked and injured by people they had pulled over to the side of the road, up from 244 in 1973. The Los Angeles police report 364 incidents last year in which vehicles were used for assault...
...self-assertion literature has helped push motorists to violence. But University of Chicago Psychiatrist Lawrence Z. Freedman, who served as an Adviser to the Presidential Commission on Violence, may be closer to the mark. Heterogeneous groups tend to produce more violence than homogeneous ones, he says, and the highway population is predictably heterogeneous, filled with drivers of different ethnic backgrounds and classes. In other words, many naturally aggressive people tamp down their hostility on their home turf, but unleash it on "aliens" after minor collisions...