Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lazy mountain village of Chiangmai, Thailand, not far from the embattled borders of Laos, pedicabs wheel slowly through the shaded streets to the hive of fruit stalls, artisans and peddlers in the marketplace; and in the jungles, past the brooding Buddhist temples, the eucalypti and wild orchids frame the mute beauty of the valley...
Just as diligent as the police department, howver, is the chalkorasing brigade, made up of commuters and sympathetic resident students, which is duty bound to erase a chalk mark on the wheel of any car in the Brown neighborhood. What perhaps started out as a game, has now become a source of constant friction...
Nice Folks. It takes a heap o' claustrophilia to make a trailer a home, but more than 3,500,000 Americans are addicted to what they fondly call Wheel Estate. There are nearly 1,500,000 trailers on the road or lodged at some 18,500 parks in the U.S., and trailer living has gotten so popular that Michigan State University offers degrees in trailering (engineering, design, park management, etc.). It used to be that trailer living was the sole preserve of the unwanted and the rootless. Today, although trailerites have their share of spoilsports, mobile home promoters eagerly...
...opened on La Cienega Boulevard's restaurant row, with two collegiate parking attendants, one of whom handles just any old American car, the other babies the foreign jobs, especially the Rollses. In fact, the fellow fits covered, foam-rubber pads on the bumpers before he gets behind the wheel (Rolls owners may buy a pair of the pads at $75). And since it would never do to leave a pet inside a Rolls during dinner, Restaurateur Peter Fairchild also provides three dog kennels fitted with drains and red fire hydrant, and offers "succulent ground sirloin that will be served...
With the dependability of a two-faced coin or a doctored roulette wheel, Americans each year lose between $20 billion and $30 billion on gambling-but they never lose interest. The lure of winnings without work is so powerful that neither moral censure, nor restrictive legislation, nor the tears of race-track widows-let alone mere losses-has ever been able to dampen it. Gambling has bred crime and corruption; it has also financed wars, built schools and churches, and, on Wall Street, produced something called People's Capitalism. "Gambling," a congressional committee once said, "is the lifeblood...