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...Madison, S. Dak., a gray-haired bicyclist shouted at the candidate: "I'm saving energy, George!" In Sioux Falls, half a dozen strangers greeted him on the street as if he were an old friend. That night, as he walked unobtrusively by the bleachers during a high school football game, teen-agers shouted: "Hey, George!" At 58, George McGovern is probably South Dakota's best-known and, on a personal level, best-liked politician. Nonetheless, this year McGovern is in trouble because many of the same constituents who think he is so personable have decided that...
Wednesday did it. More than three inches of rain soaked pedestrians, bicyclists and roller skaters on the streets of New York City. They sloshed to work in the morning through ankle-deep puddles and returned home that evening in a tropical downpour. Cars and school buses clogged the streets. At one point, police in Manhattan narrowly averted a "grid lock," the ultimate traffic jam, in which no motor vehicle can move in any direction. An angry bicyclist bit a policeman; an upset motorist tried to run down a policewoman. It was the ninth day of the transit strike...
Bernard Hinault, marathon bicyclist, explaining the philosophy that won for him the 1978 Tour de France: "I have no complexes. That's the only way to succeed...
...work in his gleaming Lincoln Continental, Defense Attorney Edward Bennett Williams, 54, might glide by a straining bicyclist named Frank Tuerkheimer, 35, heading in the same direction. After putting in a morning's work in his spacious suite of Washington offices, Williams may lunch at the Sans Souci. Tuerkheimer brown-bags it in his cramped, spartan office, where he works as a Government lawyer...
...number of bicyclists has skyrocketted in the past few years and with it the number of bicyclists in traffic accidents. Bicycling in Cambridge is not the safest of all "sports". Unfortunately many of these accidents are the bicyclist's fault. Massachusetts law allows bicycles on all roads (except expressways and limited access highways), but it also requires that they obey all traffic regulations. Bicyclists have frequently disregarded one way and stop signs, occassionally with disastrous results...