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...wonder. Incidents of "road rage" were up 51% in the first half of the decade, according to a report from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Some occurrences are grisly enough to make the headlines. Last year a high-speed racing duel on the George Washington Memorial Parkway outside Washington killed two innocent commuters, including a mother of two, traveling in the opposite direction...
Remer says he's reformed now, having had one of those little epiphanies that sometimes come to people who are pulled over by the state police. He was stopped one night on the narrow and unlighted Merritt Parkway in Connecticut after a high-speed race with another car, and soon thereafter he enrolled in a seminar for aggressive drivers. "I was lucky to recognize my problem and try to fix it," he says...
Hickey was driving home on the Mystic Valley Parkway, which is northwest of Cambridge, at about 3 a.m., when a truck swerved into his lane after speeding off an exit ramp, Adams House Superintendent William B. Long said. The force knocked Hickey's car off the highway and into a tree...
Call New York information from Houston, for example, and ask for the New York Stock Exchange. No listing. Nope. Or call Dallas--Irving, to be precise, home of the Dallas Cowboys--and ask for the number of Da'Boys. No listing. You provide the address--1 Cowboys Parkway--and are finally given a number, which produces only the screech of the no-such-number signal. The list goes on: no number for state representatives' offices in New England, or for the Mayflower hotel in Washington, D.C. One operator, when asked for a number in Des Moines, informed the caller that...
BORN: Oct. 7, 1942, Anaheim, Calif. EDUCATION: U of Nevada at Las Vegas, B.S., 1969 FAMILY: Wife, Mary Hausch; three children RELIGION: Roman Catholic MILITARY: Army Reserve, 1962 OCCUPATION: Insurance executive; bookstore owner POLITICAL CAREER: Nevada Assembly, 1983-87; Nevada Senate, 1987- ADDRESS: 1222 South Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas...