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...granddaughter of the president, and took over the top job in 1963. Three years later Lance drummed up business support for the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of an ambitious political newcomer named Jimmy Carter. When Carter was elected Governor in 1970, he made Lance head of the state's highway department...
WELCOME TO THE BIG BOSS, read a new sign in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley along the Beirut-Damascus highway. In case any traveler did not recognize the big boss, the sign was surrounded by photographs of Syrian President Hafez Assad. Last week the highway was completely open for the first time in nine months-and free of marauding gangs that robbed and killed travelers-as Assad's troops moved into Beirut to unite and pacify the Lebanese capital...
Whenever he got a pass that gave him a few days off from the cuckoo's nest, Rauschenberg would simply head for the nearest highway and start thumbing rides to anywhere. On one of these time-killing trips, Rauschenberg heard about the cactus garden at the Huntington Library in San Marino. He went there ?and found that the library had paintings in it, the first "real" paintings he had ever seen: Sir Joshua Reynolds' Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse and Thomas Gainsborough's The Blue Boy. These suave, bright ghosts of Georgian culture stupefied Rauschenberg...
Walkie-Talkies. For example, a six-lane highway leads from Kinshasa 30 miles east to the "presidential domain" at N'Sele. There visitors find not only a gaudy cluster of conference halls and air-conditioned bungalows but also a palace for visiting heads of state in which the baths reportedly have gold-plated fixtures. A 27-story, $50 million world trade center is rising in Kinshasa; Mobutu hopes to make the city the trading crossroads of Africa-although the telephone system is so poor that some government officials use walkie-talkies...
...electronic highway helpers vary in design, but most are batteryless, wireless contraptions about the size of a fuse box. They are usually mounted on sign posts at convenient intervals along the highway. To operate one, the distressed driver simply pulls down a lever-like cover, which winds up a small generator inside the device and exposes a panel with buttons labeled in both English and Spanish: SERVICE, POLICE, MEDICAL and CANCEL. When the motorist presses the appropriate button, the generator produces electricity. This energizes a solid-state FM radio transmitter, which sends a signal to a console at highway-patrol...