Word: wheels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those so favored by the mailman's wheel of fortune to get tickets to last Monday's triumph of Bob Dylan and The Band have probably imbibed more than a week's fair share of music. That's too bad, since a few concerts this weekend--all quite different--promise to be excellent...
...Eventually it became a part of the Cord Corp. and turned out cars that were far ahead of their time, highly stylized, with front-wheel drive, supercharged engine, bucket seats and tuckaway headlights. In 1937, trouble with the SEC forced Cord to sell his holdings, which by then included aircraft companies and a shipbuilding concern, for $2.6 million. In the same year, manufacture of the Cord-a high-priced ($3,000) car in the Depression era-was discontinued. Cord moved to Nevada two years later; in the '50s he became a state senator and a major force in local...
...country's history. Military and police officers have only about one-tenth of the seats, compared with two-thirds in the old Assembly. Now civil servants, academics, journalists and farmers sit side by side. The Assembly even includes a samlor driver, who intends to park his three-wheel, smoke-belching minitaxi at the National Assembly building next to the shiny Mercedes-Benzes driven by some of his wealthier colleagues...
...West Flagler keeps the price of admission minimal. The best grandstand seats cost 750 or 500, and one section is free. But in an "evening of fun," the average fan bets $72. Some of the more affluent, like Businessman José Martinez, can afford to lose repeatedly when they "wheel a Quiniela" for $6-track talk for placing a bet on three combinations of three competitors picked to win, place and show. "You never know," says Martinez. "You can have the best dog in the race and sometimes...
...Their aim: slapping paper indictments on offending companies. Now and then, the brash young barristers win trustbusting bonuses and collect supervisory payments from other attorneys who happen to land on corporations already indicted. So that no unlucky player need sit in the corner while others wheel and deal, Anti-Monopoly ends when the first player runs out of ready cash...