Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...George Washington Bridge, and I wouldn't give you much for Northern New Jersey, which smells bad. The only things about the Jersey Turnpike that are worthwhile, in fact, are that it has a truck lane and a car lane (which must be some sort of ultimate triumph of highway social engineering) and that its rest stops are named after famous New Jersey residents Vince Lombardi in Hackensack Meadow, with Vince's football trophies in a display case in the lobby, Joyce Kilmer, Molly Pritcher, Walt Whitman...
...distances between cities become greater, too, in Virginia, and it's possible to engage in elaborate highway strategy aimed at avoiding speeding tickets. A friend of mine subscribes to the Radar Screen theory, which says that police radar machines can't detect a smallish car if it's near a big truck. My friend finds trucks that are going fast, and follows them close begind for hundreds of miles. There are disadvantages to this close behind a truck, you get spewed by exhaust and can't see the road ahead, and for me it's too much of a price...
...pass through its entire lower half. It's near-wilderness in a lot of places. There's no traffic, and you can go as fast as you want. Walker Percy called Mississippi a paradise, and he was right; it's the best place on the route for perfect highway buzz, cruising along, alone, the land stretching out before you, feeling completely in control of your whereabouts and direction...
...their dismay, recent winters have been unusually mild; on top of that, seven states have banned the metal-studded tires that accounted for 40% of all snow tires sold in the early 1970s. More states may well enact similar laws on the ground that the metal studs tear up highway surfaces. As a result, snow-tire sales have melted steadily, from 19.1 million tires in 1972 to 17.5 million in 1974; this year's sales may drop below 15 million...
...Goodyear, for example, is passing around to editors a release, written like a news story that gingerly notes "there is no mention of ice traction in the GM declaration." Also, the release politely points out that-according to a survey by the Tire Industry Safety Council-mail carriers and highway patrols in many states are still equipping their vehicles with winter tires, no matter what they use before and after the winter...