Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...country has plenty of less famous eccentrics too. Terrified of driving, a Kansas scion solves the problem by packing his Rolls-Royce aboard a railroad flatcar, sitting behind the wheel and riding wherever he pleases. An Oregon sportswriter is so hung up on streetcars that he roams the U.S. to find and ride them. An Arkansas housewife fills her house with flocks of birds that swirl through the rooms; she spends $200 a month to feed them-not to mention the cleaning bills. For ten years, a 52-year-old man named Clint Wescott camped in a weed-choked field...
...they find--that they are regarded as subordinates and outsiders to be processed, graded, labeled, and sent forth. They had hoped that they would have as a group a place and a share in the departmental and University communities. They feel that the graduate student body is a fifth wheel seldom remembered when plans are considered and priorities are established...
there are a standard clutch, a brake and an accelerator, a steering wheel and a two-speed forward, neutral and re verse gearshift. Power is supplied by a 12-h.p. lawn-mower engine that runs two hours on a gallon...
Other professors wheel and deal in more transparent ways. In 1967 a professor from Albert Einstein wrote to the Senate protesting Richard Burack's claim that generic name drugs are as good as the brand name variety. It turned out that this professor was a consultant to three drug companies and had been asked to write the letter by the president of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers' Association. Professors testify in Washington against labeling cigarette packages with health warnings without revealing that they are consultants for tobacco companies. Others argue against government regulation of the drug industry sitting on boards of companies...
...placed his new figures in real environments. He grouped diners'around a real table, put a truck driver behind a real steering wheel. For his Subway, he discovered that the Transit Authority was about to scrap a car, and trucked it to his old chicken barn, which he now uses as a studio. Dismembered, refurbished, equipped with programmed flashing lights and one lone girl passenger rapt in some dream of her own, Subway now transforms one wall of the Janis gallery into a vivid simulation of the flickering trauma of underground travel...