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...California's motorists heading east to Las Vegas, the gambling often began at San Bernardino, where a 225-mile superhighway starts across the Mojave Desert. The speed limit is 55 m.p.h., but so many drivers chanced dodging the California highway patrol that on holiday weekends an average of 450 persons ended up losers with traffic tickets...
...recent weekend, the desperate highway patrol put in a new system that was reminiscent of an oldtime cattle drive. During the peak travel hours, 45 "pace cars," each with a large sign reading "It's 55" bolted to its roof, straddled traffic lanes on an assigned section of the highways. The patrol cars drove at a steady speed of 55 m.p.h., forcing cars to stay in line behind them. One patrolman would escort a caravan for a distance and then turn the cars over to the next officer...
Word of the plan's success spread so fast that 25 states, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and transportation men from Canada, France and England have already called to request details about California's caravans. "I'm really pleased this idea works," says Highway Patrol Inspector Walter Pudinsky, who thought up the new scheme. "We're all sick and tired of arresting people...
...critical smash in New York, but it never made much money, so maybe that's why this new Susskind-Warner production is a little too easy sometimes: when Ellen Burstyn takes off west from the nightmare of a suburb in New Mexico, we see the station wagon eat the highway with high-energy music playing behind, as though you're supposed to groove to the film instead of watching it. But the rest of Alice's journey from domination and fear to non-sexist union is much better. Scorsese has a great sense of how people miss each other...
Weed Killers. Several chemical firms have given cash and gifts to Illinois and Wisconsin state officials who bought the firms' weed killers and deicers. So far, 70 highway superintendents, sheriffs, sewer-plant supervisors -and even the mayors of the towns of Piper City and Rankin, Ill.-have admitted collecting bribes in return for approving official purchases at prices from two to five times competitive levels...