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...their dismay, recent winters have been unusually mild; on top of that, seven states have banned the metal-studded tires that accounted for 40% of all snow tires sold in the early 1970s. More states may well enact similar laws on the ground that the metal studs tear up highway surfaces. As a result, snow-tire sales have melted steadily, from 19.1 million tires in 1972 to 17.5 million in 1974; this year's sales may drop below 15 million...
...Goodyear, for example, is passing around to editors a release, written like a news story that gingerly notes "there is no mention of ice traction in the GM declaration." Also, the release politely points out that-according to a survey by the Tire Industry Safety Council-mail carriers and highway patrols in many states are still equipping their vehicles with winter tires, no matter what they use before and after the winter...
...California, the citadel of the automobile culture, the state's highway budget for 1976 was presented last week, and it turned out to contain the lowest outlay for new construction since the 1950s. Road-building crews are to lay only 77 miles of state freeways and expressways, down from an annual aver age of 280 miles over the past eight years. Gasoline taxes that fund the highways are off because of higher gas prices, lower speed limits and less thirsty cars. And inflation boosted highway construction costs in the state by a staggering 60% last year. California...
...five children, looking for a place to settle for a while. Mama and Daddy began "their career as tenants and travellers" 15 years earlier "when they'd surrendered their house in the woods, the first and last place they'd ever owned, to the faceless men of the highway department for a service road, and a few years later, when they'd surrendered the beautiful old place, the oldest house in the town, to the faceless men of the department of education for a parking lot (now occupied) by a faceless building), there had been acrimony, arguments about the nature...
Powers suggests no way to escape the faceless men of the highway department. At the end of "Look How the Fish Live," when the young father has decided that survival of the fittest is indeed the rule of life, unethical as he finds it--all he can do is "accept his God-given limitations" and give up. Powers's bleak vision offers no hope. The traditional relations of the hierarchy are gone, and the only response left for the reader is a quiet desperation...