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Years later, FROT gave way to GARP, resulting in honking by tailing motorists and notes under the windshield wipers. Recalls the motorist: "It was like driving around with a sign on your head." The big, blue '78 Checker and white '79 Volvo now in the driveway carry impersonal numbers. The old green and white vanity plates hang at casual angles on a small shed at one end of Irving's swimming pool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life into Art: Novelist John Irving | 8/31/1981 | See Source »

...truck driver took out his aging single-shot shotgun and went hunting. His dog came across the bodies of a 38-year-old high school band leader and a 19-year-old woman who once had been one of his students. Banks went to the road and stopped a motorist, who in turn summoned police. Five weeks later, Banks was locked up. For the trial, Banks' original lawyer, who later was disbarred for shoddy work in other cases, failed to turn up several witnesses who probably could have cleared him with testimony that they had heard a series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Three Wrongs That Were Righted | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...result, the regulations will be changed to define place of registration as the city in which a motorist pays auto excise taxes and "principally garages" his automobile, Teso and other city officials said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Will Institute New Parking Rules In Wake of Suit | 12/18/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Harold McLinton, 33, linebacker forthe Washington Redskins from 1969 to 1979; of injuries received last month when he got out of his car on the shoulder of an interstate highway to ask directions of an acquaintance in another car and was struck by a passing motorist; in Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 17, 1980 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

...thought," said Hassan Torabi, the owner of a tea shop. "I never thought I could still ride a bicycle until I tried it two weeks ago. I had to-after 23 years." Because of rationing, Torabi has temporarily stopped using his car, a locally assembled Peykan. Every motorist is entitled to 30 liters of gasoline a month, but getting the ration involves several hours in line at filling stations. Even then, private driving is prohibited from 6:30 a.m. until 2 p.m. Driving during the nightly blackout is legal but dangerous. Motorists may not turn on their headlights unless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Tehran: Clean Air and Less Fuel | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

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