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...Governor's legal counsel; Charles Benson Jr., the Governor's extradition officer: and State Policeman Fred Taylor. By week's end Justice Department sources said the investigation had been extended beyond the pardons and commutations to include charges of corruption in granting liquor licenses and federal highway contracts...
Those were also the years when the volatile Sihanouk brilliantly maintained his balancing act of keeping Cambodia neutral. "He got the U.S. to build a four-lane highway, to the port of Kompong Som," recalls Wilde, "and when the monsoons washed parts of it away, he got the Russians to repair it. He delighted in inviting the diplomatic corps to help build irrigation projects. Every time he dug up a bit of earth at one of those ceremonies, the peasants would catch it, for he was sacred and so was everything he touched...
Leave it to California to take its own skateboard-that simple, sometimes dangerous and remarkably maneuverable device-and improve it. Improve it? Well make it part of the highway culture, anyway. With a 1¼-h.p. motor attached at the rear, a hand-held throttle that can act as a kind of brake and a 12-oz. gas tank, the new Motoboards, as they're called, can move a rider at up to 50 m.p.h. and cruise at 20 m.p.h. for about half an hour. They are already selling well both in the U.S. and abroad. "The beauty...
...auto companies are increasing prices for large, luxurious highway cruisers and holding them steady or reducing them for smaller cars. This week General Motors is raising prices an average of $137 on all its models except the sub-compact Chevette. Since Detroit traditionally plays follow-the-leader, Chrysler is raising prices an average $85 for all cars except the subcompact Omni and Horizon, and Ford is expected to post further increases...
...Friedlaender, 40, professor of economics and civil engineering at M.I.T., made her mark with a widely influential study of the costs and benefits of the interstate highway system. As head of the women's caucus of the American Economic Association, Friedlaender has been a leader in the drive to get more women into graduate school...