Word: skid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...garret inventor is apt to be about as calm as a Rube Goldberg machine going double time. Denmark's Karl Kroyer is a different sort. Last week, shortly after New York's Martin Marietta Corp. snapped up the rights to make a Kroyer-patented, skid-resistant highway surface called Syno-pal in the U.S., the Dane seemed downright bored. "To make an invention is an intoxication," said he. "But the rest -to make it work, start production and complete negotiations-is one big hangover...
Auto Expert Ken VV. Purdy, author of the recently published Young People and Driving, believes that tougher, more realistic driving tests are the best bet. Most drivers, Purdy says, only learn to start, stop and steer. Tfte mark of a good driver is his ability to handle a skid, which almost no U.S. driving school teaches. And as a near infallible rule for staying out of trouble, Purdy cites the old truck drivers' maxim...
...peer in his sullen art, and he offers here two superb stories of despair that prove it. One, The Frozen Fields, shows how a father's hostility slowly corrodes the brain of a small boy. The other, Tapia-ma, follows an American photographer to the end of his skid. It is a masterwork on the psychology of the dropout, an exemplary model of existentialism in the service of fiction. Utterly bored, the photographer drifts through Latin America and slips into drunkenness at a sinister plantation bar. Unconsciously, he falls victim to conspiracy, accident, destruction. "What is freedom...
...report, the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice recently condemned the legal handling of drunkenness as a total mess. In most cities, anti-drunk laws affect only the helpless and the homeless, never affluent alcoholics. In a nightly ritual, police skim the derelicts off Skid Row, parade them before a magistrate and offer such unscientific evidence as "staggering gait" that often overlooks other ailments. Rarely represented by counsel, the bleary defendant is invariably stuffed into the "tank" long enough to get somewhat sobered up-then released and rearrested, often hundreds of times before the pathetic...
...spectacular start when it was installed as a last-minute solution after the lack of direct sun light killed the natural grass in Houston's Astrodome. Astro ballplayers still complain that the synthetic AstroTurf, a bladed carpet of green nylon backed by vinyl, makes hard-hit grounders skid rather than bounce, and that their spikes do not dig in firmly. On the other hand, the Houston University football team, which plays its home games in the Astrodome, found the going great, and it was no hindrance to making Houston's pass-catching split end and place kicker...