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...response to public pressure, police are taking a tougher stance. The Los Angeles police department has a driving under-the-influence task force, and Florida's Dade County has a 22-officer police squad assigned to patrol solely for drunk drivers. In New Mexico, police are authorized to confiscate driving licenses on the spot if the driver is under 18 and measures .05% blood alcohol content on a breath test. Adults must have twice that score to qualify as drunk, but, says a state spokesman, "the idea is that a juvenile is more impaired at .05 than an adult...
...sign of the industry's brainstorming is the burgeoning number of occasions for which greetings are available. Card buyers can now congratulate a friend on getting a driver's license, buying a new car or completing a successful diet. Customers can use cards to announce a divorce, propose a tryst or console a pal whose pet dog has died. Carrying that marketing strategy to an extreme, California Dreamers, a Chicago company, has put out an all-purpose Generic Greeting Card. The message: "Whatever...
...system. Still, something of their restlessness comes through. "I have to live very correctly," explains a young official. "I cannot flirt too much, and I must respect older people. I must be very popular, and I cannot have too many luxuries. If I don't like this driver"-- he motions to the man at the wheel--"I must talk to him anyway. I also must dress properly. We cannot have too many levels to our personalities...
Like Sinclair Lewis, who employed the author as a secretary and driver during the summer of '37, Hersey had points to score. The Wall (1950) dramatized the life and death of the Warsaw ghetto. The War Lover (1959) examined the roots of violence through a self-hating American bomber pilot. The Child Buyer (1960) criticized trends in education, and The White Lotus (1965) took on racism in an allegory that made Caucasians the objects of discrimination...
...moving conclusion to the day's events, representatives of both sides laid another wreath at the Torgau cemetery against a polished gravestone on which clasped hands are chiseled. Buried there is Joseph Polowsky, a Chicago taxi driver and former 69th Division rifleman who was a member of the Kotzebue patrol. When he died two years ago of cancer, his wish to be buried beside the Elbe was granted by East German authorities...