Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French colonial capital fought, often in vain, against a rising sense of terror. The result, as TIME Correspondents Roy Rowan and William McWhirter cabled from Saigon, was a strange blend of serenity and fear in the aloof and careless city that had so largely been spared the shock...
Like most other entries, the winning cars had been fitted out with ultrabright driving lights, auxiliary fuel tanks, Scheel seats, heavy-duty shock absorbers, wide tires, Snooper units designed to pick up police radar and Citizen Band radio sets on which the drivers got warning of highway patrol cars ("Smokey Bears") from friendly truckers ahead. "The cops are really starting to get tricky," said Wes Dawn, 31, a professional racing driver from Los Angeles, who wheeled his Mercedes 4505L into the Portofino lot five minutes after the winner. "In Ohio the police all have C.B. radios in their cars-when...
Even the most dedicated jogger must admit that his sport is purely hygienic. The bouncing exercise never allows the eyes to rest; the country seems to jiggle by on springs. The motorist glides on air and shock absorbers, but his speed undoes him. The scenery is a blur, the highlights only a few seconds in duration. And his exhaust clouds the air he travels through. The cyclist pedals between his two contemporaries. Neither pedestrian nor driver, he is a happy anomaly, a 20th century centaur. Away from trucks and taxis, he has no competition; all turf is his. The novice...
...experience as chairman of the South House Senior Sibling program, the freshmen at the Quad have experienced much less "culture shock" in adjusting to Harvard than have their isolated contemporaries in the Yard. We have found that the simple realization not only that one's problems are not unique (all freshmen discover that, and many panic), but more importantly, that others have been able to solve them satisfactorily, is immensely supportive...
...going to be with someone who'll cut their throats," says Patrolman Mike Robitzer, the first cop to live in. He emerged from his threeday, two-night stint without a scratch. Joining an eleven-member family with a father on welfare, he experienced a degree of culture shock. He shared a drafty enclosed patio with a teen-age son. For his first breakfast he was offered "eggs and orange juice." He happily accepted until he noticed that the raw eggs were in the juice. With this came a bowl of brown soup. What, Robitzer gently inquired, was that? Menudo...