Word: junctions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grand Junction, Colorado, a town like a hundred other western towns, stretched like rags on a clothesline down five or six miles of four-lane mainstreet, motels and chain store steak restaurants dangling off the side, was the journey's nadir. Planted in the middle of nowhere--away from the mountains, on the edge of the desert--its only excuse was the conflation of the Gunnison and Colorado Rivers. Like my automobile, the town itself is an escape hatch. Nothing strange penetrates past the jacked-up cars in which everyone cruises...
...hundred and fifty miles past Grand Junction, past the last house, I hit a traffic jam. Under normal circumstances this would have been completely unexceptional, but this was nowhere. A quarter of a mile ahead, the worst of reasons was lying moaning on the ground, a victim of a three-car accident...
DIED. Major General Ernest N. Harmon, 85, one of World War IIs most decorated commanders; of pneumonia; in White River Junction, Vt. A West Point graduate, Harmon, better known to his troops as "Old Gravel Voice," commanded the "Hell on Wheels" 2nd Armored Division during the Allied invasion of French North Africa in 1942; the division later halted the Germans' westward plunge in the Battle of the Bulge...
Leach's shoes still bore dirt from Glenney's fields, when, wearing a blue suit and yellow shirt, he faced some 30 people seated on yellow plastic chairs in a bank basement in tiny Columbus Junction. Complained one farmer: "Everything that comes out of Washington these days violates the American free-enterprise system." The farmer said the problem could partly be countered by abolishing the income tax on corporations...
...tools are two loose-leaf binders with summaries of his case docket and a black bag stuffed with lawyer's briefs. His territory is his state's western panhandle. It is sparse ranch and farm country, though railroads hauling low-sulfur coal have made the local junction, Alliance (pop. 10,000), a boom town. The mean Midwest weather that Judge Moran encounters has not changed since Lawyer Abraham Lincoln rode Illinois' Eight Circuit. Carl Sandburg described it: "Mean was the journey in the mud of spring thaws, in the blowing sleet or snow and icy winds...