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Elvis had a sweet tooth for the mainstream, and the tour of his home appropriately departs from Elvis Presley Boulevard, a four-lane highway lined with Golden Arches and auto dealerships. Across the street from Graceland, a visitor can buy a $12.95 ticket to see Elvis' home, racquetball court, airplanes, horses, cats, cars and, of course, his grave...
...FATHER Abdul-Wahhab Tbeilah, 58, is a generation removed from the young men who started the revolt, and did not think like them when the uprising erupted. His political sensibilities, like those of other older men in Nablus, had dulled after 21 years of occupation. An auto mechanic, he worked hard to keep his large family in their 400-year-old two-room ancestral home in the Casbah of Nablus. He lived for his children, hoping they would be educated enough someday to become doctors and teachers. Then politics intruded into his quiet life and, given the frequent general strikes...
...rural and industrial heartland could prove resistant to an insurance revolt. Cushioned by strong no-fault plans in some states and, frequently, less crowded highways, Midwesterners have among the lowest auto premiums in the country. Even motorists in such cities as Cleveland and Chicago have lower rates than their counterparts elsewhere. Chicago has extensive mass transit, for one thing, and the city's drivers tend to file fewer lawsuits than drivers in Boston or Los Angeles...
...Federal Government to regulate insurance, a broad coalition of consumer and other groups has urged Congress to end an antitrust exemption that insurers have enjoyed since 1945. The groups say the repeal would promote competition and drive down rates. So far, the industry has easily turned back the challenge. "Auto-insurance prices are driven by underlying costs," argues David Farmer, vice president for federal affairs of the Alliance of American Insurers. Removing the exemption, he says, will do nothing to cut hospital bills or stop people from suing...
Even so, a spread of the California revolt might compel Congress to get into the regulatory act. "If California takes off," says a congressional aide, "auto insurance could become a significant national issue." In that case, insurers could find that Washington politicians have suddenly become itchy to take the wheel...