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...increase, despite massive psychological resistance to it. Many drivers cherish their hour of splendid isolation in the car as about the only time all day that they are alone to think out plans, muse philosophically or scream out their frustrations free from embarrassment. But the one-occupant-per-car habit is simply too expensive to be continued. Already, radio station WTOP in Washington broadcasts ads for car-pool organizers. The Federal Government, on William Simon's orders, is assigning parking space in lots on the basis of the number of car occupants rather than their rank?the more passengers...
Social essayists have a habit of calling California "the cutting edge of the future"-a cautionary model of what the U.S. might become if and when it finally degenerates into a transcontinental landscape of neon, plastic, and religious eccentricity. Californians tend to look back the other way, over their shoulders, with a snobbery of heritage worthy of Cavalier Virginia or Puritan New England. To be able to connect with grandfathers and great-grandfathers who had a place in the state's earlier development gives a select few of them some sort of hedge against the banality of tract house...
Crimson coach Billy Cleary has been in the habit of alternating goaltenders Jim Murray and John Aiken in the net the season. According to Cleary, this practice is expected to continue throughout the Midwestern swing...
...that he had performed the operation badly. He also testified that the reason for his incompetence was his dependence from 1963 through 1970 on "uppers and downers." He popped stimulants to relieve the depression that followed an illness, then took tranquilizers to calm himself down. Somehow he kept his habit hidden from both his wife and the hospital personnel. He also confessed that he had lied in his two previous malpractice cases. He did so, he claimed, at the urging of attorneys for his insurance company...
...Almost. I missed one day about a week ago and then, well, just got out of the habit for a while. But it makes the whole day a lot easier if I swim a while. Do you swim for exercise...