Word: superhighway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year. The road, no longer flanked by fences and farms, cannot remain a symbol of man's secure hold on his own turf. It seems instead an imposition, almost an irrelevance. As I passed the turnoff to Salt Lake other motorists evaporated. I was left all alone on a superhighway, seeing five cars in half an hour...
...libidinous Italian race driver (Raul Julia), a Pennsylvania housewife (Susan Flannery), a crazed motorcyclist (Harvey Jason), even a mechanic and his obstreperous girl friend (nicely played by Lazaro Perez and Tricia O'Neil) who yell and argue from the Hudson River to the Pacific. The course is the superhighway system of America. The object is to get from Manhattan to the dock of the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Calif., preferably without being busted by a perennially thwarted cop named Roscoe (Normann Burton). The best time for the race is a shade over 34 hours. There are no rules...
...California's motorists heading east to Las Vegas, the gambling often began at San Bernardino, where a 225-mile superhighway starts across the Mojave Desert. The speed limit is 55 m.p.h., but so many drivers chanced dodging the California highway patrol that on holiday weekends an average of 450 persons ended up losers with traffic tickets...
...grand Charles liked the as it was. By contrast, Georges Pompidou wanted to update Paris-"Manhatanize" it, his critics said. For five years bulldozers growled in the streets as he ordered up one vast project after another. Some 150 high-rise buildings were either built or planned. One wide superhighway girdled the city; another autoroute slashed through its heart along the Right Bank of the River Seine...
...official opening of the Orleans-to-Tours superhighway, and French Minister of Development Robert Galley and a bevy of lesser government officials were to be on hand for the ceremony. But the celebration was unceremoniously ruined last week by angry local farmers. They first blocked the highway by putting up a wall of flaming tires, then spread manure and urine around the outdoor buffet tables where champagne and petits fours were to be served. After looting the area of decorative plants and flowers, they finally settled down to drink the champagne themselves...