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...terms heard most frequently on truckers' CB is "smokey bear"-the highway patrolman. The air waves virtually stutter with cries of "Breaker, break!" (the standard shortwave request to cut in on a channel) when a smokey sets up his radar. "You better get green stamps [cash] ready," warns a gruff voice on the Indiana toll road. One trooper even ticketed a trucker for urinating by the roadside. That cop's handle is now Fly Inspector. A more common offense is riding overweight, which can result hi a fine of several hundred dollars. Some gutsy drivers sneak around weigh...
...raspy voice shatters the static, like the roar of a Mack truck rolling by a Volkswagen: "Breaker, break to any westbound diesel. Is the chicken coop open up ahead?" The answer crackles back from the cab of an 18-wheeler lumbering across Indiana: "It's open and the hen is inside the little white church...
...find it much easier to talk to strangers on the bus than I do at many other student gatherings (the Union at lunch, faculty sherries, etc.). The reason is that the bus, a goofy-looking vehicle, naturally attracts your sympathy if not your affection. Its novelty is an ice-breaker. The bus drivers may describe themselves as loners, but as any hitch-hiker who has been picked up by the king of the loners--the long-haul truck driver--can tell you, loners are often the most friendly people going. Jack, who knows me by my first name...
Last Sunday was a frustrating day for the Radcliffe sailing team, and a rather bizarre one for A division skipper Kathy Angell. Radcliffe lost to Boston University on the basis of a tie breaker, and Angell was literally hauled out of her boat in the middle of a race...
Wood's boat--which was manned by Rick White, Chris Hornig and Sandy McIntyre--scored three firsts, a third, a fourth, a fifth and a seventh, for 22 points, two behind the Bruins. Boston University also scored 22 points, but Harvard took second on a tie-breaker...