Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These great Roman roads of today combine half a dozen principles to achieve a qualitative advance over any earlier road system, or any foreign system. The freeway's wide median strip virtually abolishes head-on collisions and headlight glare. Passing is made so easy that one four-lane freeway can carry about ten times as many cars as two two-way roads. Freeway cloverleafs eliminate the need for intersection stopping; limited access banishes blind entrances and overly frequent inflows of traffic. Gentle grades, ample widths and curves of an easy mathematical beauty let drivers see at least twice...
Visually, Mrs. Elizabeth Lane, 60, will look little different from her male colleagues when she dons her gown and wig and joins four other new appointees as the first woman among the High Court's 62 justices. But the problem is: what should lawyers call her? "My Lord" seemed confusing at best, while traditionalists cringed at the sound of "Mrs. Justice." After grave deliberation, the Lord Chancellor's office has duly issued its decision: henceforth, Mrs. Lane will be Mr. Justice Lane, and may indeed be called "My Lord." "There simply isn't any precedent for calling...
...Lordship, Mr. Justice Lane, is also entitled by ancient judicial tradition to a bachelor knighthood. For women, the corresponding title that goes with the honor is Dame, but if diehards have their way, the new justice may be deprived even of that feminine distinction and wind up as Sir Elizabeth Lane...
...doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended itself against Doreen Collins, 39, a divorcee seeking $400,000 in compensatory damages for a grisly ac cident in 1962 when she was driving her fiance's 1960 Corvair on a narrow two-lane highway near El Nido. The car swerved out of control and hit a 16-ton truck head on, killing her fiance and one of her five children. For Plaintiff Collins, Lawyer David Harney called 46 expert witnesses to back the Collins claim that the 1960 Corvair was "inherently defective." Judge John...
...delivers its message by telephone, and rings in some crude but effective suspense from the mischief wrought by two nubile teen-agers (Movie Newcomers Andi Garrett and Sarah Lane). With Mom and Dad away on an overnight trip, Andi invites Sarah out to her remote country mansion to help baby-sit. Crank calls are the girls' favorite diversion. The usual ploy: "I saw what you did and I know who you are." It is a dubious icebreaker at best, but downright troublesome when addressed to an unstable suburbanite (John Ireland) who that very evening has carved up his wife...