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...shoulder of the road, skimming around a car or truck before hurtling back into the ditch. Driving a 450-lb. snowmobile at high speed on rough terrain is like riding a brahma bull-an exercise in keen judgment and balance. As Driver Al Bergquist, an Illinois farmer in his saner moments, told TIME Correspondent Dick Woodbury, "You're whipping along at 70 m.p.h. and you charge over a hill, and you just don't know what's there...
...that course register the most acute awareness of the University's failure. Several students had nicknamed that course "Famous Negroes I Have Known". Though some members of this University at that point wished to discredit the students' criticisms as being of the white professor instead of the course, saner members of the population acknowledged the fact that no professor, black or white, could succeed where Friedel failed...
...these people are examples of a special breed that is rapidly increasing across the U.S.: the new American migrants. They are pulling themselves up by their roots in order to pursue the good life in places that are smaller, sunnier, safer, and perhaps saner than those they left. Their desire to move onward has spawned an exodus that is causing major changes in American society. Because of the migration, many once great cities are falling into ever more serious decline; scores of little-known communities are either booming or feeling the pains of all-too-sudden growth (or both...
...surprisingly, Vic doesn't fit into the Topekan society with its concern for law and order at any cost, including that of social and physical sterility. In the end, he returns to the surface with Quilla June to face the dangers of what is, to him, a saner world...
...Cambridge were a saner place, with half-logical traffic patterns, paved streets, and fewer rabid drivers, it could not support the scores of small junkyards it now hosts. But Cambridge is Cambridge, and the junkyards provide the best possible medicine for the victims of its driving maladies...