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...Back? In Memphis, suspicious police stopped Motorist Christopher Herman Westbrooks, found that he was using eight rear-view mirrors, all stolen...
...minutes later a passing motorist sped word of the crash to the police and to the power company. The power company pulled the switch on the line, and patrolmen headed out to the wreckage, urged the passengers to come on out. But they refused to move until a power and light man showed up, climbed up and cut the line away from the bus. After that the ambulances took Shirley Stith and daughter Melanie Jane off to Madonna Hospital at Denison, both dead of electrocution...
Educated Breath. In Memphis, a motorist was asked by a cop if he would submit to a drunkometer test, pulled himself together, said, "Yes, I'm a college graduate...
...monster Madison Square Garden rally. In Los Angeles, a parade of new cars led by a show girl in a pink, fur-trimmed Thunderbird implored everyone to buy, buy, buy. But the air was also filled with discordant notes. As the "You Buy" cavalcade rolled down Hollywood Boulevard, a motorist cruised up in a weary 1955 Chevrolet sedan that was equipped with a loudspeaker blaring angrily: "It's too late now! You're too far gone! Get your prices down! Get your prices down...
...average U.S. motorist who drives 10,000 miles in 1958 will spend $1,078, about $76 more than it cost him to operate in 1957, says an American Automobile Association survey. Annual depreciation, the driver's biggest budget item, will increase by $51 to $565, chiefly because of the higher cost of new cars. Insurance will go up $13.31 to $116.71, license and registration fees up $1.48 to $19.16, maintenance up .05? to .79?a mile, tires up .06? to .59? a mile. The only saving, says the AAA, will come in gas and oil. which in 1958 will...