Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fifteen cents each. The traffic is bad and the view uninspiring on the George Washington Bridge, and I wouldn't give you much for Northern New Jersey, which smells bad. The only things about the Jersey Turnpike that are worthwhile, in fact, are that it has a truck lane and a car lane (which must be some sort of ultimate triumph of highway social engineering) and that its rest stops are named after famous New Jersey residents Vince Lombardi in Hackensack Meadow, with Vince's football trophies in a display case in the lobby, Joyce Kilmer, Molly Pritcher, Walt Whitman...
...Flight 37 and Flight 182 to the same airspace at the same moment. The error was theoretically impossible, but something like it happened again last week. Two Boeing 727s-a TWA craft with 77 passengers and a United Air Lines jet with 60 passengers -were in the same flight lane approaching Chicago's O'Hare International Airport. The TWA captain spotted the danger and banked to the left, passing within 300 feet of the United plane. Again an alert individual had averted a catastrophe that a supposedly fail-safe system was intended to prevent...
...institutions and deal with conflicting constituencies, though like businessmen, or perhaps more so, they suffer from a reputation for narrowness of vision. Leonard Woodcock, 64, president of the United Auto Workers, has shown compassion, wit, a sensitivity to change in the economy, and a deep interest in foreign affairs. Lane Kirkland, 53, secretary-treasurer of the AFL-CIO, is one of the ablest union administrators and an astute student of automation, race relations, social security and foreign intelligence operations...
...Mark Lane, Director...
...tactics that had been developed, in racier days, by whisky runners and bank heisters. The curriculum consisted of running a roadblock and executing a "bootleg turn," an intricate maneuver of locking on the emergency brake while spinning the steering wheel to excecute a 180° turn within a two-lane road. The bootleg is not recommended for amateurs, but it may be one way for the skilled driver to get away from kidnapers or terrorists. Or at least prolonging the chase...