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Four cars in four years have smashed into Bridge 238 on the Kansas Turnpike near Topeka. In each case, the driver was the lone occupant, and he was killed. In each case, turnpike police made the same notation on their report: daylight, clear, road dry, level and straight, no skid marks. "Cause: improper driving." Or was it suicide? No one can know for sure, but more and more police and traffic experts suspect that "autocide," as one expert calls it, is an important cause of traffic deaths...
Estimates as to how many of last year's more than 52,000 road fatalities were suicides-or the unwitting victims of some other driver's suicidal impulse -range from less than 1% to about 10%. The evidence is almost always circumstantial, and the chance of identifying an automobile death as anything other than "accidental" is just about nil unless the suicide himself thoughtfully provides a note or blurts out his intent before he takes the wheel...
...MINING WATERWAYS. The aerial bombing of Ho Chi Minh's realm has successively diverted traffic from rail to road and, increasingly, from road to water. To impede two of the water supply routes, Navy A-6 jets took off from the carrier Enterprise by night and dropped mines to the bottom of the Song Ca and Kien Giang rivers. The U.S. uses several varieties of mines, which can be touched off variously by contact, by magnetic detection of a metal hull passing overhead, by sound, or even by the slight change in water pressure caused by any boat within...
...York smoothies realize what a picturesque thing it is, arrange for a tie-in selling campaign with novelist Robin Moore (Sadler poses for the paperback cover for The Green Berets), tell him to write enough songs to fill up an album, and get the show on the road. In months, Sadler is the American Legion's "Favorite Serviceman 1966," the owner of two Jaguars--one black and one blue--and the name-sake of the Barry Sadler Foundation for college scholarships to Vietnam victims' children...
...take second place to any make." Japan last year sold 266,000 cars and trucks from Kenya to South Korea. Best customer: the U.S., especially the West Coast, where Toyota's $2,000 Corona and Nissan's $2,300 Datsun are among the new rages on the road...