Word: hub
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Temple, Texas, is another fast-growing community. Sixty plants have opened in the area, in part because the city (pop. 41,500) lies at the hub of a wheel with spokes extending to Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. Some of the residents there feel as if they are part of a migration within a migration. "My wife would slit her throat if we had to move back to Houston," says Gene Bishoff, manager of the 700,000-sq.-ft. Western Auto Supply distribution center. At first she did not want to leave Houston, where they had lived...
...DISTANCE between Brooklyn and Manhattan has always been made greater than the trip across the bridge. While Brooklyn is the image of Coney Island, of chicken soup, of stickball in the streets, Manhattan is incarnated as the hub, the paradise that children dream of, the place where stars are made. It alone is seen as the true city, desired by all those ambitious enough to imagine themselves there...
...clouds are like marble. The cathedral sits inside the rainbow's curve as though in a proscenium arch. Then one sees how every element (building, rainbow, sky, the tree on the left and the cart) is linked by one startling device: the tree, turning on the hub of the cartwheel like an immense brush, seems to have drawn the arc of t rainbow across the sky, unveiling the cathedral as it goes. Every surface - the mudguards of the cart no less than the slowly sliding water - sparkles with a whitish impasto, virginal and dense...
...Boston Minutemen, the Hub's entry in the North American Professional Soccer League, has found a new home, Harvard Stadium, according to an announcement made Wednesday by John C. Sterge, president of the club...
Across the Detroit River from the foot of Woodward Avenue you can see Windsor, Ontario, a city with close to 250,000 people. Windsor, a medium-sized processing and industrial center, is the quiet gateway to Ontario's southern farmlands. Windsor is hardly a hub cap's throw away from the soon to be completed Detroit Renaissance Center. From the top of the Center's 70-story tower the men who built Detroit and their successors will have a bird's eye view of their city and the city across the river, and then maybe will be able...