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Spain is also popular, because it issues a free formal card to hikers if they supply character references. By using the card, the stoppeur automatically renounces the right to sue his benefactor in case of accident, and gets maps and a small national flag. Drivers who help a hiker get a coupon toward membership in the honorary "Brotherhood of the Highway." In Italy, more cars and better roads have raised the country's ranking on the autostop circuit, though the hot-blooded national temperament sometimes makes hitchhiking a perilous means of transportation. Italian men are markedly hospitable to foreign...
Some say that Michigan's Republican Governor George Romney is still biding his time while waiting for presidential lightning to strike. Recently, lightning struck three times-but in each case, Romney was the political victim, not the benefactor...
...passage about the indifference of the wealthy to American housing problems, and concerns a recently built women's dormitory at M.I.T.: "One wealthy lady gave money for the construction of a girls' dormitory in Cambridge. It is a luxurious building, done in contemporary style... However, the lady benefactor did not at all aspire to do something good. She wanted to immortalize her name before death, and so it is immortalized, inscribed upon a memorial slate at the main entrance...
...work" in Puerto Rico from December 28 to January 3, the Krokodiloes spent their last two days in the Virgin Islands, where they sang for several benefit concerts. The twelve man group also gave a short performance for Alfred V. Carpenter, benefactor of the Visual Arts Center, at his home in St. Croiz...
Golden Boy. The mourning voices first of all were for the President of the United States, regardless of his name or identity. For in a sense far beyond daily foreign policy squabbles, he is to much of the world the protector of the weak, the benefactor of the poor...