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...weeks ago 339 to 49 to tack onto a Department of Transportation appropriations bill an amendment that would kill the requirement that cars be equipped with an interlock system (and also the annoying buzzer that sounds when a seat belt is unfastened; only a warning light on the dashboard would be required). So far as the debate disclosed, not many Congressmen realized that the amendment also would damage the prospects of what promises to be a much more effective safety device...
...school's Econoline van. He was munching on some chocolate chip cookies. The sun was bright and the windshield was streaked with dirt, so he flipped down the sun visor. The window scraper fell out, so he tried to catch it, and knocked the cookies off the dashboard in the process. While trying to grab the cookies, he pushed his hat over his eyes. Crunch. The van stopped abruptly at a tree off the side of the road. No one was hurt but the engine was nailed. Bent out of shape. Totaled...
...fedayeen, hunched in the captured VW with a grenade on the dashboard and the terrified hostages cowering behind them, finally wore down the Austrians. After several hours of negotiations, Chancellor Kreisky authorized a light plane to fly the two fedayeen to Yugoslavia. The plane subsequently flew to Dubrovnik and on to Sicily, Sardinia and Malta while the terrorists tried desperately to gain permission to land in Libya or Algeria...
...tempera? In fact, no: a dark, secretive-looking Stutz Blackhawk, $38,500 worth of Republican Mafia dream-hearse with a Cadillac engine and custom-fitted luggage, polished like an immense eggplant. Frank Sinatra has one, Elvis Presley owns two; but this model, an engraved plate on the dashboard attests, was fabricated in Turin for Andrew Wyeth. "People expect me to get around in an oxcart," says the painter. "But this thing's pretty useful. I can drive it into the fields when the weather's cold, turn on the heater, and sit on the roof...
...only last year that Tom McGuane gave up for good on being a cowboy. A COWBOY'S WORK IS NEVER DONE is still neatly printed on the dashboard of his old pickup truck. That is his Montana persona. In the winter he lives in Key West and thinks of becoming a fishing guide if he goes broke...