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...Bekaa. As town after town was hit, Palestinian defenders took advantage of the mist and smoke from exploding rounds to slip out of their positions. Arafat himself had nearly been hit earlier when Syrian gunners rained shells and rockets into Aley, a resort town on the Beirut-Damascus highway where the P.L.O. leader was conferring with his military commanders in a luxury villa...
...principal source of bootlegged cigarettes is North Carolina, where tobacco is king and the state tax is only 2? a pack. On one 100-mile stretch of highway, known locally as "Tobacco Road," there are more cigarette dealers than pine trees, and their lots are jammed with out-of-state cars loading up for the run north. Profits average $1.25 a carton and the risk is relatively low: according to police, the odds against getting caught...
Ford also intends in due course to make the new system available in passenger cars. Engineer James Clarke, who heads the DDE project, is already driving a car equipped with an eight-cylinder version. On a highway trip, he believes he might be able to cut fuel consumption by as much...
...thrust up the Appalachian Mountains, which are no youngsters as mountains go. While most Eastern rivers flow south and east and empty into the Atlantic, the New meanders north, cuts through the mountains and empties into the Ohio and Mississippi drainages. For centuries, in fact, it served as a highway for early Americans seeking to travel from East to West. Stone axes, arrowheads and other artifacts found along its banks have been dated back at least 8,000 years before the birth of Christ...
...warned that they will be thrown into the kudzu patch and quickly swallowed up. The threat is not entirely unrealistic. Kudzu grows so fast that it can cover an abandoned car in a few weeks, completely overgrow an empty house in the course of a summer, and keep highway crews busy trying to clear roads. It can even cause communications problems. In Columbia, S.C., last month, a fast-climbing kudzu shorted out a transformer and cut off power for a while...