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...distances between cities become greater, too, in Virginia, and it's possible to engage in elaborate highway strategy aimed at avoiding speeding tickets. A friend of mine subscribes to the Radar Screen theory, which says that police radar machines can't detect a smallish car if it's near a big truck. My friend finds trucks that are going fast, and follows them close begind for hundreds of miles. There are disadvantages to this close behind a truck, you get spewed by exhaust and can't see the road ahead, and for me it's too much of a price...
Things are open and exposed, somehow, and with no ivy or bricked streets you feel more vulnerable, look in the rear-view mirror for the old Attica boys tooling down the highway with the trusty thirty-odd-six strapped to the dashboard. Vicious radar traps; Rocky's drug laws, which are easy to forget if you've been sitting in the suburbs for a while, but on the thruway you pass Albany, and in the distance looms the series of edifices that the ex-governor built with Speer-like glee before he left office...
...Traffic Controller Charles Hewitt at the Cleveland Air Route Traffic Control Center relieved another controller. Scarcely a minute after he came on duty, Hewitt saw an alarming sight shaping up on his big, dimly lit radar surveillance scope. The two green phosphorescent data blocks -small, illuminated groups of numbers and letters giving the altitude and heading of each flight-were moving perilously close to one another at a combined speed of 1,000 m.p.h...
...best ones have a sort of radar--the ability to hit the clutch jump shot with a defender's hand in front of the face and time running out. Walter "Doc" Hines has that radar. Last year, in the second half of a game against Ivy champion Penn, Hines pumped in 22 points, bringing Harvard fans to their feet in admiration. With the likes of pro prospect Ron Haigler guarding him tenaciously, the bearded junior scored almost at will from all over the IAB court...
Maybe so, but VanderMaat notes that under the same weather conditions, the same radar foul-up could happen anywhere-and that it could be grounds for an accused speeder's defense...