Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Arizona, Bach guided the plane down for a landing amidst startled boaters to snatch an afternoon swim in Lake Havasu. Over Kansas, he handed Willwerth the controls. "I immediately learned the true meaning of sweaty palms," recalls Willwerth, who up to that moment had three fewer hours behind the wheel than Foote. Willwerth gamely hung on over three states before gratefully surrendering the controls in time for Bach to handle the landing...
McGovern's attempt to make correction a chief issue in the campaign was unsuccessful. Pointing to a range of alleged scandals involving dairy farmers, wheel formers, ITT, and the bugging of the Democratic headquarters at Watergate, McGovern called the Nixon Administration "the most corrupt in American history." These criticisms seemed to backfire, however, as many voters objected to their shrill tone
Petkevich originally conceived of the show two years ago when he underwent X-rays on his knees and noticed the number of children restricted to wheel chairs at the Children's Hospital...
Despite such innovations, even the most optimistic police officials admit that a significant part of the change in crime rates reflects an enforced change in American life. The new auto steering-wheel locks, for instance, get credit for much of the drop in car thefts. The same sort of result is achieved when taxi drivers carry little change to be robbed of, and when their cabs are equipped with bulletproof partitions. Young women who live alone are safer when they keep dogs in their apartments; welfare clients are foiling mailbox thieves by picking up their checks in person; and elderly...
...trouble is that half the cars on Western highways these days must have writers of one sort or other behind the wheel. There is getting to be rather a literary traffic tangle in which only the best drivers-Joan Didion on the Los Angeles freeways, Ross Macdonald in the canyons, Larry McMurtry on the asphalt-beribboned deserts-can make the trip worth...