Word: allene
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Allen Carter, 29, who works for International Transtar, explains that for professional drivers, two chief problems are fatigue and boredom. Truckers fight off sleep with speed and pep pills (known as "pocket rockets"), but stories of dozing at the wheel are not uncommon. The only way to make money on the 2½-day trip from Florida to New York is by driving the 23 hrs. straight through. Carter thinks nothing of leaving Chicago and deadheading home to St. Cloud, Fla., without a break...
...think of themselves as careful behind the wheel, though National Highway Safety Council statistics show that tractor trailers are involved in more fatal accidents per million vehicle miles than passenger cars (5.9 vs. 3.6 in 1977). Drivers say that more and more truckers smoke pot on the road. Says Allen Carter, "I hear on the radio all the time, 'anybody working high? Anybody got a joint?' " A five-year U.C.L.A. study just completed reports that even a few tokes of marijuana reduce driver reaction time from 10% to 20% and affect peripheral vision as well as the driver...
...DIED. Allen Tate, 79, influential Southern poet, critic and teacher; in Nashville. A Kentuckian who as a boy longed to be another Edgar Allan Poe, Tate was a brilliant, arrogant senior at Vanderbilt University when he was invited to join a group of older poets known as the Fugitives, which included his teacher John Crowe Ransom. Believing that industrialism would ruin the South, Tate was for a time an agrarian and always venerated what he saw as the stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found...
Harris 5-14, 5-6-- 15; Hooft 6-17, 3-3-- 15; Fleming 2-9, 0-0-- 4; Fine 3-8, 1-2-- 7; Allen 3-7, 1-4-- 7; Mannix 3-8, 4-4-- 10; Clarke...
...coaching staff, referred to Harvard as "the greatest academic institution in the world." Crimson Stats HARVARD 76, BROWN 57' at the IAB HARVARD FG FT REB ASS PF TP Mannix 0-0 2-2 1 1 1 2 Coatsworth 2-7 0-0 9 1 4 4 Allen 7-12 0-3 6 1 1 14 Harris 5-9 1-3 2 2 2 11 Hooft 6-8 1-2 7 2 2 13 Mills 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 0 Taylor 1-4 3-4 1 2 2 5 Fine...