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...laws are not tough enough on elderly drivers, some of whom have lost control. Last week Roland Slatzer, 80, was paroled after serving one year for running down and killing three girls playing at the edge of a street in Naples. As for Karmiol, she is finally off the highway, but only because a prosecutor found a dusty rule allowing a retest of her driving skills. Rather than take it, she gave up her license...
From an office in Montpelier, Ray Burke, the Vermont state highway dispatcher, is relaying news of mud and disaster to state road crews. "Mud is part of Vermont living," he says, "you try to organize your life around it. Pretty soon it dries out and then, pretty soon it comes again." On particularly bad nights, he gets out his guitar and sings something to cheer the boys up. The Vermont highway department is noted for its esprit de corps, and Burke's songs cover the traditional themes so comforting to men who must battle not only raging storms...
...state and town highway departments are separate entities in Vermont. It is never a good idea for someone who lives on a dirt road to get on the wrong side of the town road commissioner. So mucky can be the results that the names in the following cautionary tale have been omitted to protect the hapless. It seems that a flatlander (a non-Vermonter) moved in and stood up and spoke at his first town meeting. Not only is it impolitic and impolite for newcomers to speak before an introductory period of about five to ten years has passed...
...m.p.h. In a jerry-built fortress, the more admirable survivors have assembled an oil refinery-but, surrounded by the marauders, they cannot escape to use their precious petrol. Into this version of cattlemen vs. homesteaders rides a scurvy Shane: Max (Mel Gibson), once the leader of a vengeful highway patrol, now a misanthropic me-firster. For the technical challenge, Max makes an uneasy pact with the refiners. He will help them break through the cordon of marauders and speed them toward their image of paradise: the seacoast, 200 miles away, and peaceful freedom...
...party accepts the proposals, the government may submit them next year to separate referendums of the white, colored and Asian communities. Replying to Treurnicht, whose group opposes any notion of power sharing, Botha declared: "We are not taking a highway to complete integration [but are seeking] the decent, Christian course of action in granting the coloreds the right of self-determination in their own affairs." His Minister of Police Louis le Grange put it more vehemently. The country's whites, he warned, could not reject power sharing forever "and then bluff yourselves into thinking that you are not sitting...