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...lanes in each direction, a fitting testament to these cities and the industry that built and sustains them. Until the late 1960s Woodward acted not only as the principal thoroughfare between the nation's fifth largest city and Pontiac, but also as one last cement haven for the amateur drag racers who did at times barrel down the wide park way at speeds exceeding one hundred miles an hour. Today, staggered traffic lights and radar-equipped patrol cars have quashed what was once a standard form of recreation for many Michigan youths. At the tame speed limit...
...started snowing this New Year's Eve. Big deal, you say, what a drag. But in Birmingham when it snows you simply can't drive. You have to wait until it stops and starts to melt. Because in Birmingham it really does melt. It doesn't lie around, grotesquely, like huge lumps of frozen spit, for you to trip over and break your neck. There is a mystique about snow in the South. I think it is because it vanishes so fast. It doesn't stay and harden to annoy you with its grey horror, but leaves, like a good...
Wearing a black gabardine jacket, jeans and black ballet slippers, she gyrates around the stage like a Jagger in drag, hips pumping and fists punching the air. "We're gonna have a real good time together!" she cries. "We're gonna talk and shout and shoot together...
...Another drag on the recovery probably will be a less dazzling trade performance. For 1975 the U.S. is expected to ring up a record $10 billion excess of exports over imports, v. a trade deficit of $3.1 billion in 1974. Two reasons: the recession slowed down imports, especially of oil; and American inflation, though high, was lower than in most other major industrial countries, increasing the competitiveness of made-in-U.S. products abroad. Next year the surplus is likely to shrink; as production revives in the U.S., the quickening tempo will pull in more imports...
...World War II, Evelyn was something of a misfit. Despite an ample display of valor in the battle for Crete, the insubordinate officer was passed from general to general. In Yugoslavia, Evelyn amused himself by circulating a story that Tito was a lesbian in drag. The story caught up with the marshal. "Ask Captain Waugh," he told the British commander, "why he thinks I am a woman." For the only time in his life, the writer was at a loss for words...