Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Owen, 54, was born just twelve miles up the road and has been a teacher, principal and school administrator in the area for nearly 30 years. He was able to convince his four-member school board that what the system needed was promotion based on a student's performance, not automatic passing based on age. In the fall of 1973, Greensville announced that twice a year students would have to take a standardized test to determine whether they had mastered their grade's material. Thereby Greensville became one of the first school systems in the country to inaugurate...
More cars for the comrades, but the road ahead is bumpy...
...trees; nothing is nailed down because the nails, like the signs, have been taken by tourists. Each week a couple of weddings are performed under the big cypress tree down by the creek-if the bride and groom can find their way to town, that is. The last known road sign to Luckenbach, one posted about five miles out on the highway, was carried off by a souvenir hunter...
...cars can do it if the drivers cannot. Custom-built for $15,000 apiece, they are three-quarter-size versions of the Formula 1 racer, powered by 28-h.p. Wankel rotary engines capable of 67 m.p.h. on the open road. The brightly colored Fiberglas bodies are mounted on tubular-frame chassis; spun-aluminum wheels carry oversize Goodyear racing-slick tires. They have automatic transmission and quick-ratio steering; brakes are front-wheel disc and rear-wheel drum. The cars are almost impossible to roll over...
Pope Paul VI approved a decree this summer citing "the heroic virtues" of Father Damien, the first step on the road toward sainthood for the Belgian-born missionary. Famed for his devotion to victims of leprosy in Hawaii, Father Damien followed a calling that led to his death from the disease. Now the leprosarium that he made famous, Kalaupapa, is dying of attrition-and for the most welcome reasons: new cases of the disease have become rare among ethnic Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, and leprosy can be treated so successfully today that newly identified patients soon become noncontagious. The savage...