Word: road
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fort Belvoir, Army engineers are trying out the versatile Universal Engineer Tractor, which resembles a World War I tank, is mostly aluminum and weighs only 31,000 Ibs. The UET can be used as a bulldozer, grader, scraper, armored personnel carrier or general-purpose transport, has an over-the-road speed of better than 30 m.p.h. Some new items already in the engineers' toolbox: aluminum landing mats, plastic road surfaces (called "membranes"), and moisture-proof plastic maps that can be wadded up and tucked into a shirt pocket and still retain their original shape...
...four Ivy basketball teams hit the road last weekend to build up their advantages over the League weaklings, and three of the favorites came home with the anticipated pair of victories...
...lobby of WBZ's studio on Soldiers Field Road looks like a doctor's waiting room. The recessed lighting shines dimly on glass-framed award certificates, hung on the walls like diplomas. The silence is emphasized by the drone of voices from the massive color TV set, always on and tuned to WBZ-TV, and is broken occasionally by a buzz from the switchboard behind a high counter, followed by the receptionist's greeting, "WBZ, Group W." Instead of patients, middle-aged promotion men holding bundles of paper-jacketed 15's sit talking of the publicity...
...year out of college before he began displaying his baby face onstage with a touring band called the Royal Peacocks around 1925. Dick Powell Jr., 15, could hit the road earlier. With his mother, June Allyson, a still wholesome but depressingly matronly 42, the lad was appearing in a comedy called Good-By, Ghost at Chicago's Pheasant Run Playhouse. The show is plain turkey, but Dick Jr. seemed to have all of his late father's spirited style...
Evans, son of a prosperous manufacturer, increased his wealth by investing in real estate and in companies that manufactured road-building equipment, furniture and motors. His newest investment makes him A.M.C.'s largest single shareholder. He will probably take a seat on the board, but says he presently approves of A.M.C.'s management. Up to now, Evans has been best known as the financial backer and co-designer of a jet hydroplane that was built five years ago with the specific aim of setting the world's powerboat record. It never...