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...miles away. When Douglas wants to call, he drives 40 miles to a roadside phone booth outside Yakima, Wash., drops in a dime and gets his office collect. Keeping contact with Thurgood Marshall also has its difficulties. In the Virgin Islands in July, he broke an ankle in a Jeep accident. Last summer he had appendicitis, and two summers ago he got pneumonia. "We have a regular routine here," says his secretary. "I go on vacation and the Justice goes to the hospital...
After 378 deaths, 1,682 bombings and 7,258 personal injuries over the past three years, the tentative truce could of course easily be broken. Just how easily was shown at week's end. Three days before the ceasefire, three British soldiers were killed when their Jeep ran over a land mine, and a Catholic youth was shot dead by a sniper in Belfast...
...battle that saw a bit of every kind of war. Everywhere you walk you hear the crackle of shifting shell fragments when you put your foot down. There are not more than half a dozen vehicles left that still function, and when I arrived, only one of those, a Jeep, had all four tires. All the others move fast enough, given the condition of the streets, on their wheel rims, and it is a common sight to see seven or eight Vietnamese lurching through the town in a Jeep without tires...
...under way with a parade down Lexington's main street with bands, floats and real live jackasses. George Wallace's float, naturally, was a yellow school bus loaded with his mock delegates toting serious placards: REDNECK POWER. Another realistic touch was a token mob riding in a Jeep bearing the sign: MOCK
Along with Coke, Jeep, Mace, Band-Aid and Levi's, one of the world's most famous trademarks is Esso. It is used by Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) in foreign countries and many parts of the U.S., where Esso is the trademark of the domestic operating arm, Humble Oil and Refining Co. Trouble is, legal restrictions following the 1911 breakup of the old Standard Oil trust have barred Humble from brandishing the Esso name in 20 states. In parts of the South and West, the company uses the label Enco, or, in Ohio, Humble...