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...opponents at once, never losing. Whole tour buses, making the Southern azalea-magnolia-plantation circuit, were made to wait while their drivers lost to Double-Trouble Roach. And then, early last fall, the Roach gas station and fruit stand had the rug pulled out from under them--by the highway department, of all things...
...mountain in Lebanon. As he scrambled downhill in the dark, wearing only pajamas, a sweater and socks, he could hear what "must have been a hundred dogs barking all the way down the mountain. My heart was in my mouth." Levin hiked for two hours before reaching a main highway. There he heard "a dog and human voices. I thought my kidnapers were at my heels, so I hid under a truck. But when I saw it was Syrian soldiers, I gave myself...
Telluride's unique ambience and special magic are set picturesquely at the & end of State Highway 145 in a box canyon some 350 difficult miles and a couple of decades southwest of Denver. But the onetime rip-roaring mining town in the San Juan Mountains has never quite been a backwater. Butch Cassidy came by to rob one of its banks, and William Jennings Bryan stopped off to say a few words. The local mines used to yield gold, silver and other precious metals, but the last of the major ones closed...
...Linn Cove Viaduct, a segment of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, built by the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration. The jury calls it "an elegant curving ribbon that caresses the terrain without using it as a support. It gives the motorist the sensation of driving tantalizingly on air while the earth goes...
...three-and-one-half-hour operation a South Hadley. Mass. resident received the heart of a Connection nurse who had died two days earlier in a highway accident. The transplant has been heralded as a key step in paying the way for future transplants with immunostippressant drugs which increase the rate of recovery...