Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tired of driving to work bumper to bumper? Envious of those zigzagging Corvettes, Porsches and Ferraris that smoke past you in the fast lane? Well, cheer up, bunkies. Last week on a dry lake bed at California's Edwards Air Force Base, Hollywood Stunt Man Stan Barrett, 36, drove a car at 739.666 m.p.h. to become the first person ever to break the sound barrier on land. Barrett's car will not be in showrooms quite yet. The three-wheel vehicle was powered by a rocket engine as well as a Sidewinder missile to throw it into supersonic...
...annual consumption in recent years. In the meantime, new problems are cropping up. Wood thefts are on the rise: one well-equipped thief got away with a haul of 35 cords from a lumberyard in northern New Hampshire. And there are more and more warnings of pollution from wood smoke. Wood has little sulfur, compared to coal, and burning it adds nothing to the atmosphere's carbon dioxide sum. But participates from inefficient burners can polute in congested areas...
...three Beich brothers obliged their great-grandfather McNulta, and smoked General Grant's gift cigar. They found it mild and surprisingly fresh, but they didn't smoke it too far down. General Grant was known for his habit of giving out exploding cigars. -Jane O'Reilly
...classic Chicago scene, committeemen jammed paunch-to-paunch and cigar butt-to-cigar butt in the smoke-drenched meeting room. First to speak was Daley, who described the bills he had introduced as a state senator to help the aged, the disabled, and abused and neglected children. Never once did he mention what the fight was all about: control of the machine. Nineteen committeemen rose to endorse him. The most impassioned was Ed Kelly who, as president of the Chicago Park District, controls 3,000 jobs that Byrne has been trying to snatch away. "The Daley name is still magic...
...evening film show; their leader was sentenced to life imprisonment at a public rally of some 5,000 people. The problem, claimed the local Southern Daily, was that the nine teen-agers "lacked ideals and yearned for a bourgeois style of life. Starting by learning how to smoke and gamble, they passed on to theft and hooliganism and degenerated into criminals against the people...