Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bridge that was going up. "The Rio Mayo," answered a local official. "No," Belaúnde corrected. "Henceforth, this will be known as the Bolivia Bridge, in honor of the great Bolivian President." Not to be outdone, Barrientos announced that he was naming a small town on the Bolivian stretch of the highway "Fernando Belaúnde Terry...
...dozen locations, Florida highways are festooned with white stripes a quarter-mile apart. Orbiting at altitudes of 800 ft. to 1,500 ft., a trooper in a Piper Cub can clock cars whizzing by below. If his stop watch says a car has raced over the quarter-mile stretch too fast (less than 12.8 sec. in a 70-m.p.h. zone), the flying cop radios a cruiser on the ground to make the arrest. All of which goes a long way toward explaining why the highway patrol last year caught a record 3,500 speeders...
...miles of glacier-formed sand dunes that stretch along the Indiana shore of Lake Michigan are not only unique geologically but also a favorite recreation center. The dunes also represent prime industrial sites for steel mills clustered about nearby Gary. For eight years conservationists, led in Congress by Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, have been locked in battle with private developers and steel companies...
Genius v. Vanity. After a stretch as a seminarian and a valet, Rousseau moved to Paris, where he lived as a music copyist. Somewhere along the line, tramping the road to Vincennes, he underwent a sort of religious experience, and concluded that revealing the truth about himself would reveal the truth to all other men. It cannot be said that he was very good at it, though the poetic cloud with which he haloed his life story is luminous to this...
...Stretching a Bit. Still, the demands of modern life are such that even the Orthodox have had to stretch Halakah a bit. Rabbi Shlomo Goren, parachutist chief rabbi of the Israeli armed forces, has ruled that soldiers can work on the Sabbath for the sake of national security and that electricity may be used on holy days because it is not the same as the fire whose kindling on the Sabbath was forbidden by Exodus. England's newly elected Orthodox Chief Rabbi Immanuel Jakobovits (TIME, Aug. 26) recently got around the traditional Orthodox opposition to birth control by ruling...