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...Fill 'er up, please, right to the top," caroled a British motorist last week as he braked to a happy stop at a gas pump. Behind him other drivers, grinning as broadly, queued up to wait their turns. Some made a ritual bonfire of their petrol coupons. Some tore them up and scattered them to the winds. For the first time in ten years, eight months and four days, British motorists were able to get all the gasoline they wanted without coupons. "The gratification to the motorists," intoned the great grey Times of London in one of the most...
Eleven-year-old Robert Bruce Lawrence of Oakland, Calif, had recovered from a skull fracture (the result of being knocked off his bike by a motorist). But soon he fell ill again. He ran a slight fever, and became noticeably bloated. His illness was diagnosed as kidney disease. For two months Bobby was in & out of Permanente Hospital...
Last Drag. In St. Louis, Motorist Carl Simon finished smoking his cigar, heaved it out the car window, is still looking for two front teeth that came loose from his dental plate and went sailing out with the butt...
Natural Causes. In Winnipeg, Man., when a motorist complained that his Ford screeched like a cat, Mechanic Ivan Booth lifted up the car hood, found a badly frightened cat perched on the battery...
Coign of Vantage. In Hawthorne, Calif., police caught up with the motorist who had been seen to stuff a small boy into the trunk of his car, learned that the boy, his son, was trying to locate a rear-end rattle...