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...truckers cruise over the surface of the nation without being a part of it," John Steinbeck wrote in Travels with Charley. On the road they have their own language of flashed lights and hand signals. Their oases are the dull-colored, neon-lit truck stops that offer chummy waitresses and hearty food, often throwing in hot showers and cheap rooms for a quick snooze. For a look at the truckers' special world, TIME Correspondent William Friedman hitched a ride with two truckers bound from Chicago to Los Angeles. His report...
...dark night and catches all his friends, neighbors and saintly village elders in mortal sin-in this case devil worship. It might have been just a dream, but it made a lifelong cynic of young Brown. Much the same thing happened not long ago to a young reporter named Charley Thompson, who wandered into Jacksonville. Fla. The sin was not devil worship but pollution, a suitable modern equivalent. And it was no dream...
Approving fan mail poured in, but Charley was soon caught in a stampede of sacred cows. He got blamed when the station manager was dropped from the Rotary Club and when the Chamber of Commerce accused WJXT of "trying to keep Jacksonville from developing." Employees of one embattled company made explicit threats on his life. He began to worry when the station's ad director sarcastically offered him a list of WJXT's customers "so I could hit them systematically instead of one by one." The herd kept pressing, and several weeks ago Thompson was fired for doing...
...aforementioned are our final group. The Wursthaus (4 Boylston St.) has German American food and crowded atmosphere. The Toga (Mass Ave. by Briggs and Briggs) has sandwiches and above, of basic American variety. Buddy's Sirloin Pit (Brattle St. across from the Theatre) is just what the name implies. Charley's Kitchen (10 Eliot St.) plays the Red Sox games on the radio and has good sandwiches. Cronin's (114 Mt. Auburn St.) is also good...
...Charley's Kitchen by 5 p. m. and were in the midst of cheeseburger specials...