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...risks on their highways: those states' automobile death rates are respectively first and third highest in the U.S., several times greater than in 47-mile-long Rhode Island, for instance. In February, when a bill to institute a higher speed limit in Georgia was under debate, State Representative Benson Ham bitterly opposed the measure on accident-prevention grounds. Snapped Ham at one of his antagonists in the legislature: "I'm not surprised to see a funeral director speaking for this bill." The move was defeated. Police in many states enthusiastically support the lower limit. Says Maryland State Police...
...three in American sales. It sells Seven-Up, which tops every other lemon-lime soft drink on the planet. It sells thousands of homes a year in Mission Viejo, Calif..and the suburbs of Denver. But most of all. Philip Morris sells cigarettes--Marlboro, Merit, Virginia Slims. Benson and Hedges. Parliament, Alpine, Saratoga 120s and others. Machines in the Richmond facility put tobacco into paper tubes, hand the cigarettes, cut them, insert filters, box them, put the boxes into the cartons and the cartons into cases and the cases into trucks. How many? These figures are from one factory...
...plants in a week. They wind up in plastic pots at supermarkets or in the homes and gardens of the well-to-do, from Nagasaki to New York to Nuremberg. The trouble is that many of the plants are taken and transported illegally. Says California Botanist Lyman Benson, a leading authority on cacti of the Southwest: "The cactus family may be the most endangered species of all major groups of plants." Cactologists list 90 native kinds as endangered or threatened. Even the commonest specimens, like the rainbow, rattail and small-barrel cacti, are swiftly disappearing from some areas...
Three minutes later, when Rick Benson knocked a Fusco pass out of the air for Gary Martin to shove home, the rambunctious Eli's abandoned hockey in favor of Roller Derby, with Dan Polizani--three trips to the box in the last two periods--playing Charlie O'Connell...
...Benson, who went into last night with three years of injuries and frustration to remember, who as a Needham H.S. senior had reached the finals at the Garden--and lost, it felt "super, never better, like getting laid for the first time...