Word: lane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps no American artist understood the sea better than Fitz Hugh Lane. His ancestors were among the first to settle in the famous fishing port of Gloucester, Mass., where Lane was born in 1804. Partially paralyzed by a childhood illness, he relied on friends to row him out into the harbor where he could sketch and paint, seeking to grasp the precise feeling of the time of day and the weather in New England. An 1848 harbor scene, The Fort and Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, typifies Lane's airy style. The exactitude of his portrayal of the bustling seaport...
There are virtually no traffic lights or street signs along the crowded two-lane thoroughfare, a "truck route" connecting Mass Ave. and North Cambridge, which has seen two pedestriansdeaths in the last year...
...Yeah, or the time Tony went out with the teacher's daughter, and the tire blew out in Pierce Lane and he had to call old Mrs. Hirsch and tell her that he was stuck out on the darkest lane in Missouri with her daughter, who just happened to have broken her bra strap at a dance-and it wasn't a lie either, she had, but he caught hell for the rest of the year." The speaker begins to laugh and stares into his beer glass for a moment. "Yeah, Tony was a really good ball-player...
...Karl had about given up, when DOT commissioned a research firm in Santa Monica to test the leading safety-mirror concepts. Karl's invention was among them. The report, which came out last year, said: "There is no vehicle on the road which permits maneuvers such as freeway lane changes and merges to be made as quickly, safely and with such a high degree of assurance as does the Smith car." As a result, there is a chance that a Santa Barbara firm, under contract to DOT, will build a prototype of Karl's car. DOT could then...
...guidance system that performed this small miracle was developed by Raytheon and is being tested by the U.S. Department of Transportation. It consists of a computer, guidance lights, three traffic lights and magnetic sensing loops embedded in the outside lane of the freeway and in the entrance ramp. As cars move over the sensors, the computer learns how many are on the ramp and whether there are gaps available for them on the highway. When a space shows up, the computer begins lighting the string of green lights in sequence at the proper speed, producing a pacing light that moves...