Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday, just because you have to do something, you decide on another assault, this time through the woods and across a road. It's chaos and no one knows who is going where, and so everyone goes the wrong place, down a suicide alley where the police wait with two cans of Mace apiece. A little fence is cut, a few people even reach the other side, and pretty soon you're retreating backwards, trying to doctor Mace victims and to keep singing and hold hands and walk-not-run, and the police are right behind you. They have their...
Last week Chrysler's voluble chairman, Lee Iacocca, took his corporate aid campaign on the road. In a session with TIME, Iacocca was characteristically outspoken. Excerpts...
Author John Barth, 49, began his career in the guise of a realist with a somewhat spooky sense of humor. The Floating Opera (1956) and The End of the Road (1958) appeared as slim companion pieces; they pivoted on the same philosophical question, i.e., how to impose values on a neutral universe; and both dwelt on despair as a source of grim comedy. But they were also set in a recognizable version of Maryland's Eastern Shore and populated with conventional characters. The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) changed course. An encyclopedic parody of 18th century English picaresque fiction...
...pass the time, I thought of taking a drive. After ten minutes, restless and wanting to confer more privately with Haig, I asked the driver to stop the car at a place where Haig and I could walk. He pulled over at a spot where the trees lining the road suddenly opened up to reveal a small lake. Picnickers were spreading out their food on checkered tablecloths; couples were lying under the trees. The sky had the mellow blue of the early French autumn. And none of these Parisians paid the slightest attention to this odd group of self-absorbed...
...first two weeks of April had seen a wave of Communist attacks on Cambodian towns and communications. On Tuesday, April 21, Communist forces struck the town of Takeo and cut the road between it and Phnom-Penh. The North Vietnamese were systematically expanding their sanctuaries and merging them into a "liberated zone." If these steps were unopposed, the Communist sanctuaries would be organized into a single large base area. By April 21 the basic issue was whether Vietnamization was to be merely an alibi for an American collapse or a serious strategy designed to achieve an honorable peace...