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...least 37 states, some highways were becoming unsafe at any speed. In La Porte, Ind., a sniper fired at an 18-wheeler, missed, and hit Schoolteacher Chris Balawender, 35, in the hip while he was driving a van loaded with eleven children. He managed to keep the vehicle under control, averting a major tragedy. One driver in Tampa, Fla., roused by fellow truckers, awoke in his cab's sleeping compartment to find his trailer engulfed in flames. To protect themselves, many truckers traveled only by day, and then only in convoys. At night, drivers jammed rigs into crowded truck...
...near Crystal Springs, Miss. Three shots hit the driver's door, but Wells escaped unharmed. Out of fear, as much as sympathy for the strike, some truckers held a serf-proclaimed moratorium on work. Said a Texas trucker at the Crossroads Truck Stop in Gary, Ind.: "A lot of guys have given up for a few days, gone home and parked their rigs in the driveway hoping this nasty stuff will blow over." But for many, there was no choice. "Hell, I can't lay up," said Trucker Wayne Renn of Lima, Ohio. "I got bills...
...less-well-known institutions are therefore being hurt the most. Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., normally attracts some 300 corporate recruiters. This year only about 200 firms are expected to interview the school's 2,000 graduate and undergraduate business students. Says Placement Director Glenn Rosenthal: "We're finding a lot of employers canceling appointments that they had scheduled for March. We've tried to be honest with our students about the outlook, and yet at the same time not demoralize them...
Iron was in his name, of course, and in his family history and his social environment. He was born in Decatur, Ind., in 1906, the descendant of a 19th century blacksmith, and his sculptural language flowed with perfect naturalness out of a childhood in the part-mechanized heart of America. "We used to play on trains and around factories," he recalled. "I played there just like I played in nature, on hills and creeks." Thousands of youngsters, no doubt, could say the same; but art grows out of other art, and what opened the sluices and let Smith...