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Some 225 miles to the south, the Delta presents a vivid contrast. Driving down Highway 4, which links Saigon with its rice bowl, buses and military convoys vie irritably for space on the narrow asphalt road, amidst foul-smelling cyclones of black exhaust. There is a dull thud or two of mortar and a burst of machine-gun fire in palm trees half a mile to the south. Women stooping in the paddyfields don't even bother to look up. "Just a couple of guerrillas," sighs the driver...
...make fun of mass transit while GM and Ford assault us with their million dollar seduction jobs. For the Crimson to abuse a bus is to further encourage people to use individual transit (to drive cars and take taxis), meaning more pollution, more dependence on foreign oil, more asphalt, more parking lots, etc. We should use our college years as a chance to establish good vibes with mass transit and develop less environmentally destructive transportation habits. Charles G. Garlow...
...helicopter circled over the rampaging students and dropped batches of leaflets, which were carried into the flames of the burning lottery building. Minutes later, the troops began to retreat. The tanks, their heavy treads chewing up the soft asphalt, followed, firing .30-cal. machine guns in a final act of defiance-and wounding more students...
...racing may be easily confused with the rival sport of stock-car racing. In both, the cars sometimes bear a superficial resemblance. But in stocks, the autos career around oval tracks for as many as 500 miles before crossing the finish line; dragsters hurtle down a 1,320-ft. asphalt strip under the watchful electronic eye of an automatic timer. The cars usually race in pairs, but drivers are out to beat the clock as much as each other...
...ROUTE 1, NEAR EASTPORT, MAINE--U.S. Route 1 is a narrow, two-lane asphalt highway, winding its way through Washington County in eastern Maine. The leaves on the trees by the side of the road are tipped with reddish orange as the first touches of autumn begin to envelop the county, even now at the end of August...