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Shack Out on 101 (Broidy; Allied Artists) confronts the U.S. motorist-already reduced to a walleyed wreck by the massed assault of saturation traffic, maladjusted headlights, homicidal hitchhikers, kids on bikes, the hydramatic wheeze, small-town radar cops and the finance company - with a new and yet more fiendish horror of the highway: the Communist-controlled hamburger stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 13, 1956 | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

Point of No Return. In Marshfield, Wis.. Motorist Richard Giles, 21, was fined $50 and lost his driver's license for 90 days after he crashed into a county truck at the Yellow River Bridge, angrily approached the same bridge six hours later, clipped off five guard posts and somersaulted into the river...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 23, 1956 | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...trucks in the U.S. (only 3,000,000 short of the latest count), and that the Chevrolet plant in Los Angeles turns out a new car every 90 seconds. Wrote Poltoratsky: "It is possible to cross America from the Atlantic to the Pacific by automobile, and everywhere . . . the motorist finds all he needs-service stations, speedy mechanical assistance, and inexpensive and comfortable lodgings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pen Pals | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

None for the Road. In Kansas City, Mo., Police Lieut. Frank Wells drove around town all day looking for a motorist to whom he could present a $100 safe-driving award, finally spotted a likely candidate at 10:30 p.m., discovered, after trying to press the award on him, that he had been convicted of four traffic violations last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

Sophist. In Minneapolis, after he was ticketed for parking in a truck zone, Motorist Andy Veres argued in traffic court that he was only half guilty since part of his car projected into a legal parking area, persuaded Judge Tom Bergin to cut his $5 fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 19, 1955 | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

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