Word: pedaling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...League at its 55-acre headquarters on the outskirts of rural Louisville, Ill. (pop. 1,000), four hours and a million rows of corn south of Chicago. The festival has drawn 1,500 men, wom en and children from as far away as Mexico and Oregon. Clad in overalls, pedal pushers, business suits and military uniforms, they seem to represent every age group, income bracket, occupation-but only one race. "You're welcome to join us, as long as you're white," John R. Harrell, founder of the league, said over the phone a few days earlier...
...higher taxes. Early in the campaign he had said that the government would have to consider easing Japan's $70 billion deficit with a zozei, a stiff tax increase, either on personal income or consumer goods. Stung by a vociferous backlash against new taxes, Ohira tried to soft-pedal the issue just before the election, but by then it was too late. Although Ohira can safely ignore demands that he resign, to form a Cabinet he will probably have to surrender some prized ministerial portfolios to the disgruntled powerbrokers who head rival factions within the L.D.P. Last week...
...cities, women sweep the streets with brooms they make out of straw. In the countryside, road crews work with pick and shovel; when steamrollers are available, they are usually fuming, coal-burning monsters. Despite the vaunted Chinese emphasis on the dignity of the masses, produce is still conveyed by pedal-powered carts carrying burdens several times heavier than their human engines...
...tiny, one-cylinder gasoline engine in preparation for the 250-mile endurance run. This job would never carry the wife and three kids to the lake each summer. It is a three-wheeled "people-powered" gadget that relies mainly on its two nearly reclined passengers' ability to pedal an attenuated tandem bike. The little go-cart engine is only for the hills. Explains Student Paul Fromm, ";We can go 40 or 50 m.p.h. ... at least it seems that fast when you're this close to the ground...
Aicient Athens had its bards. Medieval France had its jongleurs; Elizabethan London, its ballad singers and costermongers. Today, U.S. cities have their street musicians: modern minstrels who weave their fragile melodies over the pedal point of trucks and subways, amid a chorus of honking horns and an obbligato of blaring transistor radios...