Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...park a short distance away, the President made his move. Because the steel sutures from his Nov. 16 "cuttin' " were still in his abdo men (they were removed at week's end), it was a painful maneuver, but Johnson managed to hoist himself behind the steering wheel and blithely drove away. After a turn through Johnson City, a quick circle around his boyhood home, and a short spin down an old gravel road, the President hit the main highway and drove the ten miles back to the ranch...
...Wheel of Death. Once inside the school, Smith brandished his pistol. No one paid any attention so he fired one shot into a mirror and ordered everyone there-five women, a three-year-old girl and a baby-into a back room. One woman shouted, "There'll be 40 people here in a few minutes." Smith replied: "I'm sorry, but I didn't bring enough ammunition for them." He found to his dismay that the sandwich bags were too small to pull over a person's head, but he still had his knives...
...exception to all the gaudy gullaballoo was, of course, VW, looking wallflowery as ever. No go-go here. No folk singer either. A white gowned mechanic expounded the virtues of synchromesh, rear wheel drive, and a well balanced engine. Too bad he couldn't extemporize verses. He could have had fun to the tune of "If you want to be happy for the rest of your life, you'd better make an ugly woman your wife...
...which punch cards would guide 45-m.p.h. private capsules along a track inside a tube. There are also plans for automated superhighways on which card-steered cars would whiz from Detroit to Washington in four hours at 125 m.p.h. Ford has been experimenting with an air-cushioned, no-wheel, 300-m.p.h. train called Levacar...
Near the output end, each sample drops into a tube on the rim of a colorimeter that looks like a twelve-spoke wheel. A powerful light flashes a beam through the tubes, and photo-electric cells measure the intensity of the transmitted light. A computer converts these readings into values for the pen to draw on the chart paper (see diagram...