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...Cautious. Both in Houston and in Tampa, where papaya trees withered overnight and shivering residents stood in queues two blocks long to buy kerosene for their stoves, snow fell for the first time since 1940. Tuscaloosa, Ala. had eight inches, and Meridian, Miss. had five. In Knoxville, a motorist became so enraged at the snowball-throwing of University of Tennessee students that he jumped out of his car, pistol in hand, and dared them to throw just one more. They respectfully refrained...
...falling into a disrepute which reminds one of the U.S. during Prohibition," wrote one independent M.P. to the London Times. The regional petroleum office in the Midlands reported a religious revival, with thousands wanting gas to drive to churches more than two miles from their homes. Many a motorist felt new pangs of rheumatism, sciatica, or old war wounds which made it quite impossible for him to walk to the nearest...
...Lakewood, N. J., Justice Sidney Zweben sentenced a Brooklyn motorist caught passing a school bus to write "I must not pass a school bus in Lakewood" 100 times on the school blackboard...
...Only then would man be free of the monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels and special lighters for the motorist's neon-trimmed opium pipe...
...Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...