Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from minimal art to maximum drip. On the walls hang dreamlike, deft pen-and-watercolor landscapes, depicting logs, brooms, brushes and other oddments, poking fun at the high turnover in art vogues, or the foibles of collectors. Modern Sculpture With Weakness combines a log nearly chopped through, a plastic wheel with a slice removed and aluminum tubing tied with string. The whole kids Roy Lichtenstein's slick abstract "Modern Sculptures" and a high-flown review that attacked their "weakness...
...technical point of view, last year's Ken Wallis-built car was far more revolutionary than this year's Lotus turbines. It employed a totally new chassis configuration, with the driver and engine positioned next to one another in the center of the vehicle. Chapman borrowed the four-wheel drive train from last year's car, but reverted to a conventional rear engine chassis layout...
...available to the nearly 1,000 people on hand at week's end. But the camp site had its amenities too. There were power lines, portable latrines and phone booths. A big blue-topped tent was pitched to serve as a mess hall. Mobile clinics were scheduled to wheel up to dispense medical, dental and psychiatric care. Resurrection City even boasted the ultimate insignia of identity: a ZIP code number...
...expanding U.S. Interstate Highway Sys tem is the prospect of vast stretches of highway, completely free of intersections and traffic lights. The ultimate -coast to coast without a red light - will not be possible until 1972. But right now, the American Automobile Association announces, a driver can wheel onto the Massachusetts Turnpike in downtown Boston, go on to pick up the New York Thruway (Interstate 90), continue through Pennsylvania to Interstate 71 leading to the Ohio Turnpike and Indiana Toll Road (both posted Interstate 80/90), then, using the recently completed Chicago bypass, proceed on Interstate 80 to the outskirts...
...what O'Connell calls the "war between economics and safety"-a war that until recently has been formidably one-sided. "We've found people too occupied with making money and getting another passenger aboard the plane," says O'Connell, "or patching things up till the steering wheel falls off. There hasn't been enough affirmative interest in safety." With blunt language operators and manufacturers have rarely heard before, the agency has indicated that G.M.'s Allison Division was careless in the manufacture of a propeller which tore loose on an airliner that crashed in Ohio...