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Spain is also popular, because it issues a free formal card to hikers if they supply character references. By using the card, the stoppeur automatically renounces the right to sue his benefactor in case of accident, and gets maps and a small national flag. Drivers who help a hiker get a coupon toward membership in the honorary "Brotherhood of the Highway." In Italy, more cars and better roads have raised the country's ranking on the autostop circuit, though the hot-blooded national temperament sometimes makes hitchhiking a perilous means of transportation. Italian men are markedly hospitable to foreign...
...handful of daredevil stoppeurs have developed their own system; the hiker slaps the side of a moving car, then quickly falls down. The driver screeches to a stop and out of fear and sympathy lakes the traveler aboard, or so survivors report. A commoner, and safer, technique is to spot the license of an oncoming car and whip out a national flag to match...
...film opens as a car (a tidy Peugeot 403) speeding along a country road stops to pick up a hitch-hiker. The car's driver, a dapper sports-writer of forty, is challenged by the youth's self-as-surance and invites the lad to spend the day on a boat with him and his handsome wife. The boy accepts and the three set to sea. With him the boy brings a knife--a phallic, contractile affair. "I'm a hiker," he explains. "I use it to cut through things." In time the knife comes to represent masculinity...
...Actress Lupino became Director Lupino in motion pictures more than a dozen years ago (among her credits are RKO's Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Hitch-Hiker). She got into television in 1956 when Producer Joseph Gotten asked her to direct The Trial of Mary Surratt for NBC's On Trial series. Since then she has directed more than 50 television shows-everything from Have Gun, Will Travel to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where she developed such a cool hand with terror that she is now known in the trade as "the female Hitch...
...indefatigable hiker, he walked four miles to his courtroom every morning until he was past 75: "I shall continue the practice until that final morning when, fittingly. I shall fall backward head over heels down the courthouse steps." He detested barking dogs and chewing gum,, once assaulted a quailing law clerk with: "Sonny! We have come to a parting of the ways. I smell Spearmint again." But in some rare areas his ignorance was monumental. "I don't know what Mickey Mantle is or does," he once complained...