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...real gentleman, just as congenial as he could be," reported California highway patrol Captain Otie Hunter, after Henry Ford II, 57, had been arrested for driving left of center on a street near Santa Barbara, Calif. By Ford's side was pretty, red-haired Kathleen DuRoss, 35, a sometime model for the Ford Motor Co. (Ford's wife Cristina was off in Katmandu at the coronation of the King of Nepal.) When Ford flunked a roadside sobriety test (he was asked to recite the alphabet), he was handcuffed and taken to Santa Barbara Hospital for a blood test...
...there may have once been among the people to control their own destinies. Foreign diplomats speak openly of the "military Mafia"-high-ranking officers who sell deferments to rich Sino-Khmer fathers and draw the pay of thousands of phantom troops on their rolls. Out on Route 5 and Highway 7, and down in besieged Neak Luong, government soldiers are fighting the war in rubber sandals and soft hats. One corporal complained about the lack of boots and fatigues and how corrupt officers tried to make his wife pay 5,000 riels ($3.25) to come to visit him. What...
...decision should spring an extra $5 billion in water-pollution funds if localities can draft acceptable programs. The other big chunk of Nixon-blocked appropriations was $9.1 billion in highway funds. Two weeks ago, President Ford freed $2 billion of the total as a recession-fighting measure. The court's reasoning last week does not apply to the road controversy, but the betting is that the Justices will also strike down Nixon's highway-fund blocking when the argument reaches them...
...different from solitude. The interstate circles around town a ways, before heading toward open country. It cleaves the dilapidated edge off of Topeka with one arching stroke, and clapboard shanties flank it like chips nicked from the blighted elm trees and dusty earth all around. When the highway beads clear of the shanties, the Kansas River sidles up to it instead, with grain elevators on its banks. Just past city limits, my car radio falls silent...
Lawrence, Kansas lies east of Topeka at the end of a narrow country highway. This road straddles countless hillocks and wanders around farm houses whose claim to the land is older; it is not in a hurry and travelers used to rushing must find it painful going. With the Mercury, I usually; drove the length of it in about an hour...