Word: roam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THOMASINE & BUSHROD are a couple of stickup artists who roam the West after the turn of the century, shooting up citizens, falling in love (with each other) and distributing the plunder of the territorial banks among the poor folk. According to their wanted circular, they are "known to have many friends among Indians, Mexicans, Poor Whites and Other Colored People." They are pursued by a rabid white marshal, and naturally they meet a violent...
Last year I talked with a reporter who was in Cam Ranh about six months age. Sand drafts are covering the roads now, packs of wild dogs roam around the post and the 5000 beds of the 12th Evac Hospital are all empty. The street lights still turn on automatically every evening...
Where does all that leave the classic, distinctively American, roomy, powerful, glittering family car? In a state of suspended animation. No one can yet write its obituary: millions still roam the roads, and millions more will roll off assembly lines this year, even though they have become harder to sell. A resurgence cannot be ruled out either. City planners, traffic experts, sociologists and environmentalists may rejoice in the big car's difficulties. But surely the majority of drivers who are turning away from it are doing so more in sorrow than in anger, and would gladly turn back if costs...
Buses cannot roam all over the place either, but they can reach many more points than a rail system can, and Detroit is now moving to upgrade bus transportation. GM, the nation's largest maker of city buses, is spending $32 million redesigning theirs to provide more comfortable seats, a smoother suspension, wider doors and better visibility for both driver and passengers. Chrysler and American Motors both have Government contracts to develop new buses...
Just as surfers roam the world in search of the perfect wave, glider people seek the perfect updraft-a magical surge of rising air that bestows a feeling of buoyant freedom. Thousands of Americans, from the mountainsides of Hawaii to the dunes of Cape Hatteras, are yielding to what Richard Bach calls "the real Jonathan Livingston Seagull who lives within...