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...nation's allies have developed the habit of treating it with public condescension and private contempt. Voters face a choice for President in November that leaves many of them shaking their heads. An uneasy suspicion has formed that the U.S. is about to leave the sweeping interstate highway it has cruised along for more than a generation, and return to a two-lane blacktop. Or worse. That is a heretical direction of thought for Americans. For most of the nation's 204 years, pessimism has been considered un-American -in an official way, at least...
...CREDITS always come when the hero is driving down a highway? What is it about highways and Hollywood...
...driver brakes and shifts into park. His passenger jumps out while the engine is running and slams the door. The transmission pops into reverse, and the car lurches backward. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week made an "initial determination" that some such sequence has been happening often enough to Ford Motor Co. vehicles to suggest a flaw in their automatic-transmission design. It was a step toward ordering the biggest recall in history, involving some 16 million Ford cars and trucks built between...
...expert on the U.S.S.R. sees the country as "running out of ideological élan with which to face the many challenges of the future." Ideology is still an important, indeed inescapable, aspect of Soviet life. Its trappings are everywhere. The country is plastered with huge billboards, on buildings and highway overpasses, proclaiming in white letters on red backgrounds, SLAVA TRUDU! (Glory to Labor!) and SLAVA KPSS! (Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union!). But pedestrians and motorists ignore the slogans. Virtually no one ever uses the word slava in everyday conversation, except in the very common phrase, Slava...
...Carter talked to an ad salesman on the Los Angeles Times a few weeks ago, he might have known that there were fewer Help Wanted ads, a sure sign of economic stress. Had he stopped in Blair, Neb. (pop. 6,300), the people who live along the highway could have tipped him off that because of soaring gas prices, auto traffic was way down. Had his family stayed at the Holiday Inn outside New York's Kennedy Airport, he could have got the message from travelers having to pay $58.32 a night, a message that sounded slightly different when...