Word: safe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...combat, particularly the chance to duel the German ace of aces, Ernst Kessler. Barnstorming in an aerial circus during the mid-'20s, he senses that the tide has once more turned against him. The aviation establishment is now interested in proving to the public that flying is a safe and reliable means of transportation, rather than in determining who will be the first nut to do an outside loop. Again, Smiling Waldo is too late with too much of the wrong kind of skill and spirit...
Will bike riders opt for the safe bikeways if it means taking a longer route to their destinations? To find out, Leclerc is now setting up a test bicycle path alongside a heavily used downtown street. But he is already convinced that "a bike should become a second car -perfect for cities...
American reaction to the project is mixed. Physicist Glenn Werth, of the University of California's Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, praises it as both safe and economical. He notes that the Russians have already set off nuclear blasts to stimulate further output from old gas and oil fields, control runaway gas well fires and remove earth for strip mining without any major hitches...
...novel, calling him "a sociologist of all this new American territory." Updike deserved it--as a chronicler of suburbia he is unsurpassed. But a sociologist is something different from a novelist. He is an onlooker--in Updike's case, a perceptive and entertaining one--and he watches from a safe distance. The artist who stands removed from the scene and the people he describes risks losing a gut sensibility that a sociologist, after...
...called the Dale. National Observer Reporter John Peterson breezily noted in a frontpage piece, complete with a photo of the dynamic carmaker next to her sporty space-age vehicles, that Carmichael and her "talented mavericks" had designed the Dale with a new kind of plastic body that would be safe in crashes at speeds of up to-50 m.p.h. The car would also get 70 miles per gal. of gas and cost less than $2,000. Such claims went well beyond the visions and capacities of Detroit's giants, yet Peterson printed Carmichael's tall talk with virtually...