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...vigilantes of Interstate 94 almost produced the opposite effect. As traffic backed up, drivers risked life and fender to pass the righteous threesome, climbing embankments and zooming along the shoulders. Once in front of their tormentors, some irate motorists immediately slowed to about 15 m.p.h. out of spite. "One semitrailer slammed on his brakes so fast he blew out a tire. I was lucky I didn't crash into him," recalled Lipski. "People got violent. We didn't expect them to try to kill us, but they did." When the procession reached Detroit it stretched half a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Vigilantes of Interstate 94 | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

...taking vacations this year in the U.S. The country cannot accommodate any more tourists than that because, for one thing, there will be an additional 18 million foreigners charging across the U.S. (in exchange for some 23 million Americans who are going abroad). There is also not enough fender room left on the highways. In any case, the remaining 98 million of the nation's population have to stay behind to serve the tourists at motels, souvenir shops, trailer camps and gasoline pumps, not to mention the necessity of maintaining a standing U.S. Army and more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Travel '76 Rediscovering America | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

...California last week, Buchanan demonstrated that quality at the San Jose Center for the Performing Arts. He sauntered onstage, took a gulp of beer, then stepped forward with his Fender Telecaster guitar. The youthful audience welcomed him with screams and cheers. For the next two hours, Buchanan and his three sidemen played to constant outbursts from the crowd: "Come on, Roy ... Right on, Roy." Roy responded by singing about half the 18 songs on the program, including the wailing Roy's Bluz and the chuckling My Cat Walked Out Last Sunday. But the biggest applause came for the broad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Messiah on Guitar | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

...Right now it's my guitar. A 1957 Fender Duo-sonic, black, with maple neck, Schaller heads, and original pickup...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

...corner. Seeing a green light, James Salamites, 19, proceeded to cross the intersection from a side street at about 30 m.p.h. Ford yelled at his driver: "Be careful!" It was too late. Salamites' 1968 yellow Buick Le-Sabre smashed the presidential limousine on the right front fender, forcing it six feet off course. Ford was unhurt. But Frederick K. Beibel Jr., the Republican state chairman, was slammed against Ford and broke a finger. One eyewitness later reported, "The President looked scared. I'd have been scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The President Looked Scared' | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

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