Word: runaways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crooked Dog Race. It is a sinister world, but less sinister than ridiculous. At one point, the hero stumbles through Stonehenge in a torrential downpour pursuing a brace of runaway greyhounds that Moggerhanger has just entered in a crooked dog race. Later he finds himself both proposing marriage and consummating it with Moggerhanger's daughter in the lavatory of an airliner high over France. As for that iron lung, it turns out to be fake...
...catch the torrential spring runoff; the crater walls produced by the same blast served as a restraining dam. Soviet oilmen triggered another nuclear blast to revive the oil flow from a field previously believed to have run dry. Most surprising to Seaborg was a Russian technique of subduing runaway oil-and gasfield fires by atomic explosions. On two occasions 30-kiloton bombs deep beneath the surface succeeded in sealing fissures that fed the flames by carrying natural gas to the surface...
...outdated by electronic computers, an innovation then dominated by Sperry-Rand's Univac. The younger guard won out, and IBM poured vast resources into its own computer designs. After the corporation introduced the 700 series of computers, its tough-selling teams made those machines and their successors the runaway leaders in a market that grew from infancy to a $9 billion industry over the next two decades. IBM's new boss will need all of his legendary energy to keep the company on a highly profitable course. The business lag has cut so deeply into U.S. computer investment...
Then, too, there is growing concern as drugs creep into Nixon's natural middle-class white constituency. Reston, Va., for example, the planned community once heralded as an American dream suburb, has a drug problem. Two weeks ago, a 14-year-old runaway from the community, Carolyn Ford, died from a heroin overdose. In the same week, a 17-year-old Santa Barbara, Calif., youth stabbed himself to death rather than surrender to narcotics officers; he was among 41 people being rounded up in raids following a four-month narcotics investigation...
Schwinn Bicycle Co., one of the biggest wheels in the $400 million-a-year industry, had booked orders for its entire 1971 production by last month. Other major U.S. manufacturers-Murray Ohio, Huffman and AMF-are also having trouble keeping pace with runaway demand. Sales in many bicycle shops are racing 200% ahead of last year's level, and delivery dates for new merchandise are uncertain. Complains Gano Thomas of San Francisco's Nomad Cyclery: "The factories aren't making bicycles fast enough. If we order 100 bikes, we're lucky to get 25." Adds Henry...