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...main thoroughfare, was hopelessly jammed until midnight with stalled and sliding cars. Mused one former Chicagoan: "I feel a little ridiculous being snowbound in 1 ½ in. of snow." Many motorists simply abandoned their cars. But Virginia Lichlyter, a graduate student at Georgia State University, persevered. Her six-mile commute from school to home took 7½ hr. Thousands of people were marooned overnight in office buildings, shopping malls and a mortuary. Atlantans rushed to stock up on portable heaters, batteries, lanterns and candles. "It's been crazy, totally insane," said Hardware Store Salesman James Hoelscher...
...Race Driver Mark Thatcher, 28, the son of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, the 390-vehicle Paris-to-Dakar rally lived up to its promise as "the last possible adventure in our epoch." Nine days into the harrowing 6,200-mile course, Thatcher, Co-Driver Charlotte Verney, 38, and Mechanic Jean Gamier suffered a broken axle on their Peugeot 504 and then vanished in the vast expanse of the Sahara. A search party, led by Algerian and French military planes and helicopters, crisscrossed the desert sky while trucks and Land Rovers traversed the rugged terrain. Finally, last week...
There are very few things that passionately arouse my roommate, whom I will call Susan for the sake of anonymity. In fact, only three come to mind: running 30-mile races in the heat of Yosemite, Calif., snowshoeing in New Hampshire the day before an exam in -15-degree weather, and watching the San Francisco Forty-Niners...
Even as police tramped the hillsides in search of Dozier, the Brigades struck again. A tiny Autobianchi A112 car moved unnoticed through the deserted streets of Rovigo, 40 miles southeast of Verona, and parked next to the walls of the town prison. Four masked men leaped from the car and began spraying machine-gun fire at two guards in a watchtower. In the prison courtyard, four women inmates who were Red Brigades members heard the shots and overpowered a guard. Then the car exploded, killing a pedestrian, shattering windows within a quarter-mile radius and blowing a 4-ft-wide...
...society is a prison of the spirit and freedom is the death throe of society: suicidal anarchy. Whenever the film focuses on Pixote's face-solemn, premoral, scuffed like a club fighter's-it seems a snapshot of an infant convict at the end of his last mile...