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...Although Motorist Harry Truman told reporters that he was just "perking along" as he drove west with Bess after their week's New York visit, to Pennsylvania Patrolman Manley Stampler it looked more as if he were zipping along. The trooper flagged Harry down on the Pennsylvania Turnpike for cutting in front of passing cars-notably his own patrol car. "I just warned him not to do it again,'' said Stampler. "Mr. Truman promised to be more careful...
...Minor traffic accidents, such as rear-end collisions, cause a motorist's head and neck to be snapped rapidly back & forth. This "whiplash" injury is often more serious than at first appears, said Neurosurgeons James R. Gay and Kenneth H. Abbott, after research at Ohio State University. They urged full and prompt medical attention to ward off chronic pain or permanent injury...
Savings Plan. In Las Vegas, Nev., Motorist Ray N. Hall slept in his car to save on hotel bills, woke up to find $150 worth of luggage stolen, went to call police, returned to find the rest of his belongings gone...
...average U.S. motorist, who thinks he is doing fine if he gets 18 or 20 miles per gallon, the results of the economy run might seem fantastically good. The reason for the economy run's more impressive showing is that most of the cars, though stock models, were driven by experts. For weeks before the test, professional drivers had covered the course time & again, charting hills, corners and roadblocks, and timing traffic lights through the various towns to avoid gas-wasting stops & starts. During the test itself, some even had weather cars driving ahead to signal any sudden shifts...
This year Barnes got a really heady accolade-Baltimore, a city with one of the world's most gruesome cases of traffic congestion, asked him to spend a month diagnosing its troubles too. When he headed east last week, there was hardly a motorist in Denver who did not wish him well...