Word: ralph
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About the only thing a driver can't get at Transport City is a bottle of beer or a shot of bourbon. No alcohol is available because, says Ralph Hutchinson, one of Transport City's developers, "drinking and driving don't mix." In the 99-unit motel, drivers can rent functional, two-bed rooms for $13.50 a night. They rarely stay that long. The occupancy rate usually runs from 100% to 130%, as truckers slam in, grab a shave, a nap, fill up and head out again...
...Ralph W. Dexter Narrowsberg...
Commenting on the changes which the community and police have been resisting, 18-year veteran Sergeant Ralph Ross told the Washington Post last summer, "You have to understand one thing about this department; up until the mid-'70s, it was a known fact that if you came into P.G. County and made trouble the police would kick your head in. Simple as that. The county had that image and wanted it that way. The police were encouraged to be that way. But times have changes and that sort of thing wasn't allowed any more...
What cause could possibly unite Ralph Nader, Inflation Fighter Alfred Kahn, the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Conservative Union in enthusiastic support of Teddy Kennedy? Of all things, deregulation of the trucking industry, which is likely to ignite one of the hottest fights in Washington over the next year or two. Stealing a march on the Carter Administration, the Massachusetts Senator last week outlined a bill to repeal the antitrust exemption that for the past 30 years has enabled groups of truckers to get together and set freight rates. As new chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Kennedy...
...October 1978. Twenty-eight seconds to go, ball on the Princeton five, the stage set for Harvard to win at Palmer Stadium and stay in the Ivy football race. Larry Brown turns the wrong way, the ball bounces off Ralph Polillio's knee, Princeton recovers. And the eating club parties were worse than the game...