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Texas is a state where men are men and good ole boys don't so much drive pickup trucks as aim them. And they don't cotton to being thought of as sissies. Somehow, the state highway commission failed to take that into account when it announced that the license plates on Texas' 13.5 million vehicles would henceforth carry not only a border of -- ugh! -- baby blue but also a limp slogan, THE FRIENDSHIP STATE...
...macho was that? "Wimpy!" cried Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ann Richards, showing that she's one of the boys. The Houston city council signed a resolution urging the commission to reconsider, the Houston Post received more than 1,200 irate letters, and the fax machine in the Houston office of Highway Commissioner Wayne Duddleston spat out hundreds of furious protests. Said the befuddled Duddleston: "I had no idea the furor this would cause. I thought the plate was attractive, certainly colorful and highly readable, and that it would promote tourism. It never occurred to me that it was wimpy." At week...
...controllers he could only make wide turns to the right and was worried about whether he could reach the airport. Alerted to the emergency, the tower at Sioux City informed local police and rescue units to prepare for either a crash landing on the runway or one on nearby Highway...
...said that the film was inspired by incidents of racial violence in New York over the past decade: the Howard Beach incident three years ago, when a young Black man was chased onto a highway by a gang of white thugs and killed by a motorist; the death of an elderly Black woman Eleanor Bumpurs, who was shot by New York police; and the death of Black graffiti artist Michael Stewart, who was killed in the custody of six New York police officers...
...made believe Laraway's convertible Volkswagen was a skateboard. Driving down a steep road, they switched off the engine, leaped into the back and shifted their weight to try to steer the vehicle. During yet another inebriated escapade, Laraway's speeding car flipped over completely on a Long Island highway but landed on ! its wheels. Only later did they notice that the car's backseat was missing...