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Pickup. In Ashland, Ky., Motorist W. S. Patton kept looking in his rear view mirror, wondered why a light truck was following him so closely, finally discovered that the truck had no driver, had been hooked to his bumper since he backed into it in a parking space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 2, 1959 | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

...woman driver is flagged by a stalled motorist, who asks for a push. "You'll have to get up to 35 miles an hour to get me started," he says. The lady driver backs off, guns, rams his car at 35 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Stuck by the Tale | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

...passing motorist, Frank Smith, of Oxford, made an unsuccessful attempt to rescue the boys as a crowd of 3000 gathered. Metropolitan Police officers recovered one of the bodies, but the services of skin divers were required to bring up the other...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Youths Die In Charles River | 2/6/1959 | See Source »

Bold Sober. In Hartford, Conn., Motorist Oliver P. Barber plowed into the back of a police car, paid a $200 fine despite his testimony that the slurred speech, watery eyes and walking staggers noted by cops had actually been caused by a loose dental plate, an asthma-sinus condition, and a boyhood mishap with an ax that had damaged several tendons in his left foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Second Try? In Toronto, Motorist Luca Bratevich went to jail for drunken driving and backing through a red light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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