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Like the skateboard and Hula-Hoop, California's fads inevitably migrate eastward. The latest, freeway shootings, appears to have faded on the West Coast but is all the rage in southern Illinois and is spreading to eastern Missouri. A recent rash of seemingly random events has left one person dead and one wounded. Outside Collinsville, Ill., shotgun fire struck a man in the chest and arm as he drove down Interstate 55. Fifteen minutes later and ten miles away, another driver was shot in the head and killed. Across the state line in St. Louis County, Mo., last week...
THIS SUMMER I paid $2 to tour a restored plantation in Atlanta. White girls in puffy pastel hoop skirts fluttered around the giant Master's mansion, answering questions about the European art and furnishings...
...Bands of sociologists are already in deep retreat trying to explain the ineffable Vanna White. Pity them and the mavens at work on Oliver North. When bait-and-tackle shops on the Maryland shore hang GO OLLIE signs, it is safer to concede that some things, like the Hula-Hoop and the Gabor sisters, are not explicable...
...FRESHMAN roommate tells the story better than I. It's her experience after all. She got her room assignment form, and on it appeared my name and Southern address. She tells me that she expected to walk into our Matthews room and find me clad in hoop skirts, drawling and sipping mint juleps. I was not what she expected, but I am no less a Southerner...
...whatever Duncan decides about the rest of his hoop career, the fates have conspired to create one hell of a trivia question for future generations...