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...civilian) Jeep dropped from 79,000 in 1978 to an expected 36,000 this year. Next month taps will sound for the basic Jeep: American Motors will replace it with a new, smoother-riding model, the YJ (the letters stand for nothing), geared for the motorist who likes to conquer mountains on weekends but, says an AMC spokesman, also "wants to drive to work in his pinstripe suit...
...violence erupted when youths from the Lozells Road area, described by police as a drug-trafficking center, confronted officers about to ticket a black motorist and then turned on firemen who were trying to extinguish a blaze in a bingo hall. By the time police reinforcements arrived, 300 to 400 youths were looting and burning neighborhood shops, many of them owned by Asian immigrants...
...gunfire, signs that militiamen are approaching in their Jeeps and battered cars. Generally the gunmen shoot their automatic weapons into the air as they career around a corner, warning other drivers to clear a lane. But they can get ornery if anyone blocks their way. Many a hesitant motorist has had his tires shot out from under...
...Metropolitan Police received a call just after 10 p.m. from a motorist who saw something in the river. A search team spotted Chipperfield soon after, and rescue units arrived on the scene about ten minutes later. The team pulled the student out of the river at 11 p.m. according to Bruce...
...Linn Cove Viaduct, a segment of the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina, built by the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration. The jury calls it "an elegant curving ribbon that caresses the terrain without using it as a support. It gives the motorist the sensation of driving tantalizingly on air while the earth goes...