Word: lane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steadfastly refused to see that nothing could solve the traffic evil but the fast-multiplying automobile itself. The problem would end for good on the day of the last traffic jam-at that shrieking moment when every highway, street, road and lane in the nation was so clogged with cars that none could ever move again. Only then would man be free of the monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels...
...starter's gun for the 800-meter race, the field took off, jockeying for position. One lanky runner, starting on the outside lane, cannily let the field pass him, then moved over and settled down to the well-worn groove by the rail-the shortest course. Running with gracefully flowing strides, U.S. Air Force Sergeant Mai Whitfield, 27, moved through the field, passing them one by one. In the homestretch, opening up, the 1948 Olympic champion whizzed to an 8-yd. victory in meet record time of 1:48.6, a full 1.3 seconds faster than the 1936 record...
Down Memory Lane...
...Rodgers & Hart, who wrote the song for Jeanette MacDonald in Love Me Tonight, had a different picture in their minds: Jeanette jogging along a French country lane in a one-horse trap...
...16th lap, when Wacker, president of the S.C.C.A., gunned the Allard in front. On the 21st lap Spear, 36, driving all out, took the lead. Wacker made one more bid. For a good part of the final lap, the Allard and Ferrari ran wheel to wheel on the two-lane road until Spear pulled ahead to win by a couple of car lengths. Time for the 100 miles (25 laps): 1:11:42, an average of 83.6 m.p.h...