Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...product planning group and his partner, John A. Nattress of the University of Florida, are scheduled to review the experimental-car contestants on something called "costs to the consumer." The bemused car owner finds Paisley and Nattress hard at work on the line evaluating a front-wheel-drive, hydrogen-powered, hydraulic-assisted entry from the University of Wisconsin's Stout campus. Even with some donated parts, the exotic power plant modestly housed in a blue Dodge Omni body cost $25,000 in cash. Student Steve Mann insists that the car would be "as cheap as or cheaper" than...
...exercise in nostalgia of several sorts. The vessel was the Delta Queen, a four-deck, wooden, stern-wheel steamer fitted out with Tiffany lamps and polished hardwood floors to remind tourists of the riverboats of Mark Twain's day.* Its progress down the river was a water-borne version of the whistle-stop tour of fond memory (to politicians anyway). The President's manner was a throwback to the campaigner's style of 1976, as he worked some of the same territory-notably Iowa, where his earlier triumph in district caucuses gave the first hint that...
...airplanes, and scores of smugglers who had figured the harsh, 13,000-sq.-mi. wastes of the desert could serve as a safe private landing field. In one successful two-week camp-out near a remote airstrip, his team bagged a DC-10, two tons of marijuana, a four-wheel-drive truck and four smugglers...
...length from 27 ft. to 79 ft., as if they were balsa wood. Boats were capsized, righted and then swamped again, their crews suspended terrified in safety harnesses. Less fortunate yachtsmen were thrown about the decks or washed overboard. Said British Skipper Arthur Moss of Camargue: "Our steering [wheel], complete with a man attached, went soaring into...
...radio's answer to television's Wheel of Fortune or $20,000 Pyramid. And no, Susan Stamberg is not out to make a deal, or even to see if the price is right. She is co-host of All Things Considered, surely the most literate, trenchant and entertaining news program on radio. Gimme Shelter! was typical of the show: an imaginative way of commenting on the current scene, in this case, federal retirement tax policy...