Word: roading
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ambitions of new leaders sometimes sink into Realpolitik. To the environmentalists' delight, Dick Lamm, Colorado's newly elected Governor, proclaimed in 1975: "I am going to drive a silver stake through the heart of Interstate 470"?a road that was to be the final link of a circumferential highway around Denver...
Whatever Sandino's dreams, the question now was whether Nicaragua's revolution would give birth to a mildly leftist but democratic society or a militant Marxist state. The five-member junta that rules the country has so far followed a middle-of-the-road course, promising elections, an economy based on a mixture of private and government enterprise, and an independent stance in foreign affairs. Although the junta remains united, there have been foreshadowings of an eventual breakdown in the alliance of radicals and moderates who combined to topple Somoza. Asked if he supported the junta...
Seemingly half a block long, the sleek, big car was as American as the Fourth of July. It captured Americans' expansive post-World War II mood and satisfied dreams of affluence. But demands for fuel efficiency and changing tastes have sent the regal road cruisers the way of the buffalo. General Motors shrunk its Cadillac Eldorado from 5,321 lbs. in 1976 to 3,897 lbs. by 1979. The Coupe De Ville also sweated off 900 lbs.; Chrysler stopped making any cars heavier than 4,000 lbs. last year. But Ford hung tough. Its 1979 Lincoln Mercury Continental Mark...
...Palmyra, Wis., resembles any nursery school. But the kids in Palmyra are not the usual class. Their parents are migrant farm workers, mostly Spanish-speaking of Mexican descent, who travel north from Texas to harvest onions in Wisconsin. Their average wage is $3.40 an hour. Families are on the road during June, September and October, school months for most other youngsters. Migrant children are often left by themselves, to pass the summer days playing in the dirt or escaping the heat under trucks and battered cars, while both parents work in the fields...
...Janet Frame's tenth novel concerns an Englishman's experiment with truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the real thing. As he waits under a road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong to him alone. Second, that...