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...pickup truck traveling on an Alabama highway at high speed went round a curve, spun out of control, and turned over into a ditch. The driver, Kenneth R. Barton, lay helpless, bleeding from an artery. State Trooper Kenyon M. Lassiter happened by in his patrol car and quickly applied a tourniquet. He eventually got Barton safely to a hospital, and was credited with saving his life...
When he vanishes upcountry, he is alone or with Bonnie or with his close friend and manager Fuzzy Owen. "After going into every city in America three or four times, after traveling every highway and eating at every truck stop, it gets old, and I gotta stop and recharge my batteries." His most recent recharge expedition-three days at Orange Lake, Fla., last month, angling for black bass without much luck-left him nostalgic. "I'd give all the money I have if I could go back to live in the '30s," he says. "I would like...
...construction was well under way on Interstate 44. It cut off a segment of the community, isolating 150 families. Yet the state planned only one vehicle overpass. In protest, some 300 citizens piled into buses and traveled to the state capital, Jefferson City; there they argued before the highway commission for an additional overpass...
...largely unpoliced frontier between the zones eventually became one of the most open in Europe. Hundreds of Italian motorists daily crossed the line to buy Yugoslav meat and cheap gasoline in Zone B. The highway connecting the two zones became known as "washing-machine road"-a reference to the Western-made appliances that Yugoslav tourists brought home with them from shopping trips to Zone...
Writing in The Crimson five years ago, William Galeota called rent control a "panacea." He explained the 1969 turmoil about controls as a reaction to specific problems of the time--controversy over the proposed Inner Belt highway (since abandoned), the then-new NASA center, and the influx of people into the city...