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...Phoenix not on TWA but on United. When I got there, I rented not a Hertz or an Avis but a local firm's car. I drove to the Luce home not by established routes but by enormous circles. Then I drove to the back of the circular driveway and hid my rented Ford behind a large lilac bush...
...knows where it will all end. In Southern California, four-year-old Derek Bland gives expert demonstrations on his 50-cc. Honda. Wearing his silver crash helmet and silver boots, he takes off down his driveway at 12 m.p.h., leans, sticks out a foot expertly to whip his bike around and roars back to his starting point. "I'm too good at this," he says. "You should see me go over a jump. I can do wheelies too." Derek started out on a mini-minibike called the Indian, but quickly became bored. For one thing, it could...
...roared like that." Riding hot, dry winds of up to 70 m.p.h., the fire blasted down on Greene's $70,000 house, vaporized the commune. James Parnell, 82, one of the original settlers of the valley, lost his house and 27 of his 28 Maltese cats. With their driveway blocked by flames, Bud and Blossom Sniveley jounced across the fields in their car just ahead of the fire that turned their farm to cinders. Much of Jamul itself was incinerated...
...found a snake coiled on the front seat of his car. The snakes slither across manicured lawns, nest in the coolness of garages and patios. Reid Waddell, a 42-year-old butcher, bent down to pick up his evening paper and saw a rattler side-winding across his driveway...
...ears but only through their rears." He knows how to kick. To force slumlords, corporations or city officials to clean up buildings, provide jobs or stop cheating consumers, he resorts to picketing, boycotts, rent strikes and some imaginative dramatic stunts. He had garbage dumped on an alderman's driveway to make the point that collections were inadequate in the slums; ghetto rats were ceremoniously deposited on the steps of city hall. If the occasion requires, Alinsky's forces will not refrain from spreading rumors about an antagonist or indulging in something that comes very close to blackmail...