Word: thruway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paid $143 -$135 fare, $3 tax, $2 for a hot breakfast and $3 for a cold dinner (no free food on the plane). Over 3,500 miles, that works out to 4? a mile-less than the tolls and gasoline expenses on the New York State Thruway (average: 5.2? a mile). The return flight costs...
...rear-view mirror for the old Attica boys tooling down the highway with the trusty thirty-odd-six strapped to the dashboard. Vicious radar traps; Rocky's drug laws, which are easy to forget if you've been sitting in the suburbs for a while, but on the thruway you pass Albany, and in the distance looms the series of edifices that the ex-governor built with Speer-like glee before he left office, a sop to his ego and construction-industry friends. They are buildings that will still be here when the world ends, inhuman enough...
...Oklahoma, hundreds of citizens have telephoned on Governor David Hall's hot line to complain that they were trying to hold at 50 m.p.h., but nobody else was. On a 120-mile trip along the New York Thruway, one driver cut his speed to the state's new limit of 50-and counted 138 cars racing past him. (But the driver improved his mileage in his BMW from 20 to 25 miles per gallon.) In Washington, one of the few Western states that has imposed a new legal limit, Anthony Stokes, a Seattle builder, chased down a speeding...
...life is a road map of modern architecture. The turns it took were his turns, the direction he pointed became the thruway. He is the compleat designer-of everything from kitchen cabinets to entire cities...
Despite the towering presence of the prison, Attica in many ways is the archetypal upstate New York community. Its ambience is one of spare Yankee economy distorted by the proximity of metropolitan Buffalo and the lure of markets (and profits) made available by the Thruway. There are old, elm-shaded Victorian homes hard by one and two story frame houses of no particular distinction; in the commercial district the new Citizens' Bank, done in businesslike red-brick modern, contrasts with the clapboard charm of Timm's Hardware. Attica has a variety of fraternal, youth and religious organizations, in addition...