Word: macadams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cold autumn drizzle, a crowd of 100 waited on the macadam at Allegheny County Airport. They had been standing there, soggily, for five hours. When his plane finally taxied in through the puddles and Edward Kennedy stepped off, it came?a current of slightly awesome arousal, a rush of something more than just celebrity. People surged, straining to shake his hand, to touch him, collect an autograph or simply stand near. With a touch of marvel, a Kennedy aide remarked: "They aren't Bobby crowds yet. But they're close...
...first glance, Louis Nephew and his family might appear to be distant Boston relatives of All in the Family's Archie Bunker. A large American flag waves proudly above the small grass and macadam front yard, and during the just completed mayoral campaign, the flagpole was also decorated with a poster boosting Louise Day Hicks, the antibusing candidate. More important, the Nephews recently refused to send their children to a school outside their Dorchester neighborhood, assigned to them under Boston's busing plan. But inside 12 Edson Street the view is somewhat different, and the Nephews seem less...
...another set of characters, the Driver and the Mechanic, the endless macadam stretching cross-country is nothing less than a lifeline. They seal themselves inside their '55 Chevy and look to make money at racing. They pick up a girl who has been scuffling around the back roads. Inevitably, they meet up with G.T.O. The challenge comes quickly: race all the way from...
...maybe, for the plungers who put their money on Cañonero II, which paid $12.80 at O.T.B. as opposed to $8.80 at the track. But for Samuels and O.T.B., the first six weeks of operation have been something less than a lark. Like a mudder on macadam, O.T.B. has been tentatively clomping along to cries of "Foul" from racing commissions, labor unions, track owners and horse breeders. Nevertheless, O.T.B. has so far proved a winner with the group that counts most: the bettors. At Grand Central Station last week, one of nine off-track betting sites in the city...
...tourist bus took passengers on a ten-minute ride over a newly paved macadam road to the Caravan Hotel, Sharm el Sheikh's year-old 350-bed caravansary. Before we started, the bus driver turned to a young man. "Nu, buddy," he said, "where are you going without a ticket?" The man paid the 40-cent fare and said, "Take me downtown." At that the driver smiled. "Downtown? This isn't Tel Aviv-yet." Certainly not, judging from a first look at the treeless landscape, flat stretches of fine reddish gravel, and cone-shaped peaks of the bleak...