Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keep taxes down and meet rising costs, some state governments have turned to such moneymaking gimmicks as lotteries and race-track taxation. Idaho now draws income from an eight-lane bowling alley...
...businessmen talk about the need to help the poor, ghetto betterment projects often seem to generate more rhetoric than results. "Whenever the average businessman has done something, he has done it in a condescending spirit and at a distance, not in a face-to-face partnership," says Mills B. Lane, president of the Atlanta-based Citizens & Southern National Bank. "He likes to sit around and debate, then go write a check to some agency or other...
Pizzas and Laundromats. Evidence of the American presence is everywhere. Along blacktopped, four-lane Route 1, built by the U.S., there are miles of drive-in restaurants, Laundromats, pizza parlors and souvenir stands. Big American cars squeeze through Naha's narrow streets. G.I.s and their families crowd in and out of shops, housewives wearing scarves over the inevitable hair curlers. In Koza, the nearest large town to the Kadena base, there are numerous bars, such as the Night Queen, Cabaret Aloha and U.S. Club, and few nights go by without at least one fistfight involving overloaded Americans and Okinawans...
...tower atop North Mountain, the South Korean capital of Seoul throbs in the midst of a boom that can be seen as well as heard. Skeletons of new office buildings and hotels crosshatch the horizons, schools are going up, black factory smoke fouls the air and a new four-lane expressway slashes through the heart of the city. Restaurants and bars are jammed with cheerful, garlic-reeking patrons. Mini-skirts and bell-bottoms are part of the scene at O.B.'s Cabin, where Seoul's students listen to guitar-plucking folk singers...
...Weinberg did-with a silk strip spelling the first and more esthetic half of his name ($25). At the extremities, there are sailor berets with Adolfo's name on the band ($65), Cardin's C-studded pumps ($38), and a chain of dangling KJLs (for. Kenneth Jay Lane, $15) for a necklace. With a wave of her V-notched gloves, the lady is ready to meet her husband for lunch...