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Their only monument the asphalt road...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: Quiet in Panama | 2/19/1977 | See Source »

Healy, who left Harvard's asphalt wonders, the Classics, to join the varsity as a guard, will use his 5-ft., 10-in., 150-lb. frame to slide unnoticed into the world of giants and hopefully cause problems for opposing teams...

Author: By Bill Scheft, | Title: Hoots, Healy Will Take Up Crucial Places As Cagers Attempt To Fill Personnel Cavities | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

What chance have snakes upon a asphalt road...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: Epitaph For the Sun | 9/30/1976 | See Source »

North Carolina's addiction to dirt tracks is spreading. To avoid bankruptcy, the Myrtle Beach, S.C., raceway recently tore up its asphalt and went back to dirt; promoters up in Columbia are debating a similar move. After cutting the number of dirt tracks on its circuit to six, NASCAR now wants to add new ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South/sport: Just Like Whiskey | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...Such asphalt visionaries may be better off restricting their rural fantasies to improved air quality. Good ol' country living now suffers from that big-city disease known as a rising crime rate, according to the FBI'S annual Uniform Crime Reports released last week. In rural areas, serious crime-murder, rape, burglary, robbery, aggravated assault, larceny and theft-was up 8% in 1975. That increase was a percentage point higher than the crime rise in large cities (pop. over 250,000). Things were even worse in the suburbs, which racked up a 10% increase over 1974. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Gaining on the Cities | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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