Word: highway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...narrator of this small first novel is a nameless American Indian. 32 years old, "servant," as he describes himself, "to a memory of death." He already has plenty to remember. His older brother died at 14, crumpled by a car while trying to drive cattle across a Montana highway. After years of "making white men laugh" at local bars, his father failed to come home one night. He was later found frozen "stiff as a slat" in a snowdrift. The narrator thinks that something has died in him as well; he feels "no hatred, no love, no guilt, no conscience...
...expected to handle 10,000 tons of solid wastes daily in ten regional collection centers. The first will soon be built in Bridgeport by Garrett Co., which will sort garbage and sell every component?the metals, the fuel and even the ashes (for landfill or highway construction). If all goes well, the authority will earn $100 million a year by 1985; that will more than cover its costs. For then" part, Connecticut residents will save the $100 million that they used to pay for municipal garbage disposal. "There are no technological problems with garbage any more," concludes Rita L. Bowlby...
...bloodiest campaigns of terror in a bloody century, the Algerians forced the French to withdraw from North Africa in 1962. "My brothers, do not kill only, but mutilate your adversaries on the public highway," said one terrorist paper in 1956. "Pierce their eyes. Cut off their arms and hang them." F.L.N. militants took the words to heart, striking at the French, both in Algeria and in France itself, and at Algerian Moslems who refused to cooperate. In 1957 the F.L.N. murdered 300 residents of the Kabylia region whom they suspected of cooperating with a rival group. The French vowed never...
...roaming Wild Card is but one of the grace notes of mass transit in Pittsburgh these days. Painted in pastels or ablaze with psychedelic designs, trolleys and buses have become sprightly delights. The bus groaning up steep Perry Highway bears the blue and white of Perry High School, and passengers rock in their seats to music provided by a cassette tape recorder. The transit authority also sells a $1 weekend pass, known as the Big Buck, that allows four people to ride wherever they like from 10 a.m. on Saturday to 4 a.m. on Monday...
Lines of out-of-state cars this fall sped past blazing vistas along the highways, then spilled onto narrow country roads, causing slowdowns near picturesque spots. "I've covered more accidents caused by people running across a street or highway to take a picture," said New Hampshire State Trooper T.R. Korbet. Growled one tourist: "The traffic is so bad along the Mohawk Trail that they had to bring out Indians to entertain all the leaf freaks sitting in their cars with nothing...