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...Monetaire du Afrique Centrale--a relic of the French colonial administration) laughed as told me the story. It seems that nobody in Port Gentil really cares about the central government of Gabon: Port Gentil is in effect an island at the mouth of southern Gabon's largest river. No highway or railroad connects it with the rest of Gabon and it's pretty much self-sufficient. Logs comes down the river to Port Gentil's sawmills, oil is beginning to be pumped from under Port Gentil, and ships come to take it all away. That's all anyone is concerned...
...talk Ricks chose to stay away from the more surrealistic songs from Blonde on Blonde and Highway 61 Revisited. Instead, he spoke on five songs from Dylan's early period: "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll," "Boots of Spanish Leather." "Blown in the Wind." "Positively 4th Street," and "Seven Courses" a song that Dylan never released. As a literary critic, Ricks apologized for not having the expertise to deal with the musical aspect of Dylan's work to analyze it chemically the things he does with his votes to emphasize and color the meanings of his song...
Rabbit Hazard. In fact, the 18 finishers in last week's marathon, as well as many other racing aficionados worldwide, stoutly believe that the Atlantic-Pacific dash represents a blow for sanity; after all, the Interstate Highway system was designed for 70 m.p.h. travel and was later limited to maximum speeds of 55 m.p.h. Likening the speed curb to Prohibition, "which made criminals of us all," the ebullient Yates, who pooh-poohs the energy crisis, reasons that speed limits are "at best hypocritical, at the worst specious." In the spirit of Erwin George ("Cannonball") Baker, a fabled driver...
Like most other entries, the winning cars had been fitted out with ultrabright driving lights, auxiliary fuel tanks, Scheel seats, heavy-duty shock absorbers, wide tires, Snooper units designed to pick up police radar and Citizen Band radio sets on which the drivers got warning of highway patrol cars ("Smokey Bears") from friendly truckers ahead. "The cops are really starting to get tricky," said Wes Dawn, 31, a professional racing driver from Los Angeles, who wheeled his Mercedes 4505L into the Portofino lot five minutes after the winner. "In Ohio the police all have C.B. radios in their cars-when...
...finding fulfillment in family, church and neighbors. They are not recluses or faddists. Their butter and soap come from the store. They worked the land, taught country school, and welcomed the automobile, hybrid corn and television. And what they had at any moment was always enough. The nearest interstate highway (30 miles) or urban shopping complex (80 miles) did not lure them away. They stayed-part of the enduring underpinning for the man on Pennsylvania Avenue...