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...Argentina, one motorist insults another, and the offended party bursts from his car with knife drawn. In Peru's recent presidential elections, the three leading candidates presented themselves more as messiahs than politicians, and it was not accidental that each was the founder of his own party. In Mexico, convivial gossip about a prominent man inevitably rolls around to his casa chica -the love nest where he keeps his mistress. "We expect them to have mistresses," says one wealthy married Mexican lady. "After all, they...
...fingerprints and filing them with the FBI, the civil libertarians shrieked with rage. But these days, hardly any U.S. auto driver knows-or seems to care-about a big grey machine in Washington that clicks and whirs month in, month out, at the task of monitoring a motorist's habits on the highway...
...Jersey, on that part of the high-speed turnpike that cuts like a six-lane ribbon across a five-mile stretch near Newark Airport, motorist are conscious of only one thing: the area stinks from industrial chimneys. But that is merely a discomfort. Far more dangerous is the fact that fog can and does descend upon the marshy meadowlands along the turnpike. To warn motorists, New Jersey has spent some $300,000 on fog horns, fog lights, etc. But nothing seems to work. Early one morning last week, the lethal soup swirled in. Warning signs flashed futilely. Samuel Baker...
Just after dusk, a motorist found Moore lying at the side of the road, still wearing a sign reading: "Equal Rights for All." His civil rights crusade was over, he had been shot twice with a .22 caliber rifle. Floyd Simpson was arrested a few days later and, on evidence that the police have not yet disclosed, charged with first-degree murder...
...number of Volkswagens produced this year will be well over a million, which will put VW second only to G.M.'s Chevrolet Division as the world's biggest producer of a single make of auto. Biggest enthusiast of the beetle outside West Germany is still the U.S. motorist. While most German exports leveled off this year, Volkswagen's U.S. sales rose 13% to 230,000 cars, trucks and station wagons. The number of VWs registered in the U.S. has now passed 1,000,000, and currently the waiting list at Volkswagen's 680 U.S. dealers...