Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perpich's hair has grayed noticeably in the year since he became Governor, and he blames the power dispute. Says he: "This is the hard one." To enforce the law as interpreted by the courts, he has sent some 150 maroon-jacketed highway patrolmen into Pope County to protect work crews. More than 40 farmers have been arrested, for interfering with construction. Perpich has proposed the creation of a "science court" that would have-no legal status but would assess the line's potential dangers, if any, to the health of the farmers, their crops and their livestock...
Once limited to truckers and their Smokey Bear antagonists on highway patrols, Citizens Band radio has grown to the point where about 20 million American "good buddies" have CB rigs in their cars or homes. Yet despite the boom in the industry, a lot of firms that tried to capitalize on the craze are going bust. A case in point: Hy-Gain Electronics Corp. of Lincoln, Neb., one of the largest U.S. makers of ham radio and CB gear. Burdened by $31 million in debts and a $24 million earnings loss in fiscal '77, Hy-Gain has filed...
...Parrot's Beak, Giap's troops were traveling in the area where American forces had invaded Cambodia to cut Viet Cong supply lines from the north. Route 1, the highway that Giap's soldiers used for their forays into Cambodia, was the same road along which Richard Nixon had sent U.S. troops in the eight-week U.S. invasion. It was also the route that the battle-tough North Vietnamese 9th Division, one of the units deployed last week, had traveled to enter Saigon...
...eight-lane interstate, with a Smokey Bear lurking at every cloverleaf. For those people, fantasies of the free life live on in country music, which shamelessly romanticizes the road, and its Truckey cowboys in the CB subculture, with its arcane patois, so useful in frustrating authority figures like the highway patrol...
...Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta hopped on a plane for Vulcan. A Russian charity committee said it was willing to consider a donation to help reopen the Big Sandy. Said Robinette, aghast at what he had unleashed: "Lord, Lord, get me out of this mess." Happily, someone did. State Highway Commissioner Charles L. Miller suddenly announced a $500,000, one-lane bridge for Vulcan, to be built within a year. All of which caused the New York Times to suggest, tongue in cheek, that if the Soviets were truly interested in extending foreign aid to U.S. communities, New York City...