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...Independence, Mo., Harry S. Truman dropped into a local automobile agency to inspect his latest purchase: a $4,000-plus black Chrysler sedan, with chrome-wire wheels, electrically operated windows and seat controls. "It's got so many gadgets on it," said Motorist Truman, "I'll have to go to engineering school so I can handle it." Shortly afterward, the new owner backed the car out of the agency garage, whooshed straight across the street and rammed lightly into a utility pole on the curbing...
Steering Committee. In Cheboygan, Mich., the town fathers solemnly passed an ordinance calling for a $5 fine on any motorist caught driving with a woman...
...Many a motorist has lived through the experience and awakened in his bed to find it was only a bad dream. Last week London Bus Driver Albert Gunter, 46, knew that it was no dream. With 20 passengers in his double-decker bus, Albert was just starting across the draw in London's Tower Bridge, as he had hundreds of times before. Suddenly, he said later, "it seemed as though the roadway in front of me was falling away." Albert started to jam on his brakes. Then he changed his mind...
...over what it meant by "objectionable matter." Since the committee itself could not decide, it seemed dangerous to recommend that existing federal laws be strengthened making it an offense for private carriers to transport "lewd, obscene or lascivious" books and magazines in interstate commerce. This could mean that a motorist might be arrested for carrying a book by Steinbeck. However, publishers and readers alike could agree with the committee's suggestion that the publishing industry try to clean out the dirty corners in its own house...
MARCH-Psychology Student. In Tulsa, Motorist Walter Mims explained to police why he had hit a woman driver: "She signaled she was going to turn right, and then she turned right...