Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Automatic Forfeit. Congress also heeded Detroit's pleas that it takes a human behind the wheel to turn a car into a misguided missile. A highway-safety bill, approved 317 to 3 by the House, offers $270 million over three years-$140 million less than a Senate version-as an incentive to states to tighten safety codes and to improve driver training, testing and inspection of vehicles and highway design. The House also decreed that states that do not set up an approved road-safety program by Jan. 1, 1968 will forfeit 10% of the federal aid that they...
...actual cab of a red panel truck that Segal had found in a junkyard. Inside, the odometer read 85,723, the generator and oil-pressure gauges glowed red in the dashboard. In the driver's seat was an alert, life-size white plaster driver, both hands on the wheel, right foot hovering over the accelerator. As viewers looked over his shoulders at the windshield, they shared a Cineramic ride through city streets, as lights, cars and bright neon signs whizzed...
...movements. Once they were found, she cast off the traditional ballet corset and slippers, danced barefoot in a transparent Greek tunic to a storm of mixed scandal and approval. By the time she died at the age of 49 in 1927, when her long red shawl caught in the wheel of a sports car and strangled her, she had ushered in the whole modern movement of interpretive dancing...
...Such a symbol comes dear, as it did to promising young Singer Richard Fariña, who died in a cycle accident in April. Folk Hero Bob Dylan, 25, was luckier-but not by much. He was buzzing along on his Triumph 500 near Woodstock, N.Y., when the rear wheel froze, flipping him off and onto the pavement. Dylan was rushed to a doctor and will spend at least two months in bed, recuperating from a neck fracture, a concussion (he wasn't wearing a helmet), and severe face and back cuts...
...late Major Bowes launched it on radio, and his top aide, Ted Mack, brought it to television in 1948. It is still the top-rated show in its time slot (5:30 p.m., E.D.T.), pulling 12,700,000 viewers a week. Last week, in a Methuselan milestone, its "wheel of fortune" went spinning for the 1,500th time...