Word: roading
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Deputy Sheriff Christopher Look Jr. persisted in his statement that he had seen a black car, like Kennedy's black 1967 Oldsmobile, go down the dirt road toward the bridge at 12:40 a.m. At that hour, Look was returning home from his weekend job as guard at the Edgartown Yacht Club. He insisted that the car, which, like Kennedy's, had a license plate beginning with the letter L, came out of School Road, which leads to the cottage where Kennedy's party had taken place. The car then crossed the intersection, drove onto a farmer...
Americans are inclined to accept many of the details of Kennedy's explanation: that he took the wrong turn onto the bridge road by mistake, that he dived several times in an effort to rescue Mary Jo Kopechne, that he returned later with Paul Markham and Joseph Gargan in an effort to reach the girl. By a plurality of 44% to 31%, those interviewed also accept his statement that he impulsively swam from Chappaquiddick to Martha's Vineyard...
...some railroads, the only solution seems to be outright government own ership of the commuter lines. So far, though, that has not worked either. The nation's biggest commuter line, the Long Island Rail Road, was taken over by New York State in 1966. Today the L.I.R.R. is in the worst trouble...
Commuters refer to the road as the Toonerville Trolley, and many have taken to wearing buttons that proclaim, "I hate the L.I.R.R...
...better. This year Stewart, 30, has replaced King James as the Scottish ruler of the road. Last March, in the South African Grand Prix, first of the 1969 world championship Formula I series races, he roared into the lead on the very first lap, and has rarely been behind since. In the most astonishing driving display in Grand Prix history, Jackie raced his 430-h.p. Matra-Ford M580 to victories in Spain, The Netherlands and France. He lost at Monte Carlo only after a faulty drive shaft forced him to drop out one-third of the way through the race...