Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal source of bootlegged cigarettes is North Carolina, where tobacco is king and the state tax is only 2? a pack. On one 100-mile stretch of highway, known locally as "Tobacco Road," there are more cigarette dealers than pine trees, and their lots are jammed with out-of-state cars loading up for the run north. Profits average $1.25 a carton and the risk is relatively low: according to police, the odds against getting caught...
...Chatham, Va., a community of 1,822 residents not far from a highway connecting it with Greensboro, N.C., and beyond. In the center of town is the courthouse of Pittsylvania County -named after William Pitt the Elder, who was the Earl of Chatham. Chatham boasts the elegant, Episcopal-run Chatham Hall school for girls on one side of town and the Hargrave Military Academy on the other, as well as 19th-century wooden houses with broad front lawns and wide verandas...
...even without his stetson, Jones seems to have sprung from a Marlboro ad. In fact this quintessential Texan-moving slowly, talking slowly, even smiling slowly -was born in Albuquerque. From 13 on, he worked as a janitor, a cattle weigher, a powderman in a Colorado mine, a highway surveyor, a truck driver, a uranium prospector...
...thrust up the Appalachian Mountains, which are no youngsters as mountains go. While most Eastern rivers flow south and east and empty into the Atlantic, the New meanders north, cuts through the mountains and empties into the Ohio and Mississippi drainages. For centuries, in fact, it served as a highway for early Americans seeking to travel from East to West. Stone axes, arrowheads and other artifacts found along its banks have been dated back at least 8,000 years before the birth of Christ...
...warned that they will be thrown into the kudzu patch and quickly swallowed up. The threat is not entirely unrealistic. Kudzu grows so fast that it can cover an abandoned car in a few weeks, completely overgrow an empty house in the course of a summer, and keep highway crews busy trying to clear roads. It can even cause communications problems. In Columbia, S.C., last month, a fast-climbing kudzu shorted out a transformer and cut off power for a while...