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...Nose. In Denver, Motorist Jay E. Shideler was found "not responsible" for veering into a parked car after he explained that he lost control when a grasshopper landed on his nose...
...Paper. In Toledo, a motorist paid a $1 traffic fine with 100 one-cent checks each costing 5? in bank charges, sent them by registered mail, dished out a total...
Test Flight. In Detroit, Motorist Maurice J. Shields was sentenced to 20 days in jail after leading police a merry, 105-m.p.h. chase, explaining to the judge: "I heard a knock in the engine and I wanted to work...
Telegraph Poles & Tin. Partly because of its long postwar austerity, when most of its automobiles were made for foreign markets. Britain was one of the slowest of Western industrial nations to discover the mixed blessings of the age of the Common Motorist. Even yet. there is only one six-lane British superhighway-the London-to-Birmingham M1. And in traffic-congested London, a race between a sports car and a sedan chair staged last week by the magazine Lilliput ended in a win for the sedan chair...
...rapid-transit trains that, when completed in 1965, will get commuters from any one station to any other in less than an hour. What spurred it on was a voter outcry against the blight on the city's beauty caused by superhighways. The state legislature decided that the motorist must help pay for the new system, will nick him for $115 million in traffic tolls to construct a rapid-transit tube under San Francisco...