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...largely blue-collar crowd from small Southwestern towns. Dressed in DIESEL POWER T shirts and Peterbilt trailer-truck caps, they revel in the dust and noise. For some, off-road racing is an egalitarian country gathering. "My husband is a mechanic and I'm just a small-town housewife," says Loretta Pipkin from El Centre, Calif. "But out here everyone is equal...
...Photographic Eye of Ben Shahn collects pictures taken in the 1930's. Shahn began by photographing people in the streets of New York's Lower East Side. Later, when the Federal government gave him a job, he took pictures of sharecroppers and farmers and small-town people in Appalachia, the Ozarks, and Ohio. When he didn't photograph people, he photographed the artifacts which were closest to them--the circus posters which advertised their entertainments or their hand-painted signs with messages like "This is the car HOOVER promised ME, ROOSEVELT gave ME, FOR GODS SAKE DON'T LET LANDON...
...North Carolina, anyway, you're in the Deep South, where the woods and farms look a little more gagged than before. You can stop at the cigarette factories in Durham for entertainment, and pick up your free pack of cigarettes, or drive off the Interstate and check out small-town grocery stores for local color. There are great peach stands in Georgia, and a huge amusement park outside Atlanta, a city that has resolved its existential dilemmas through relentless financial growth and self-promotion. Everyone in Atlanta is happy and young, pink-cheeked and double-knitted, a little overweight...
...more properly, these people are remaking the small-town life-style that American writers since Sinclair Lewis have been excoriating. Prudish and bigoted, they have everything their smug little hearts could desire - except the power to reproduce themselves (probably because they lack fresh air and real sunshine). They must send sirens up to lure studs down, and that is where the boy - despite his dog's warning - goes wrong, precipitating one of the year's better chase adventures...
Safe Soil. Next morning Ford met with 33 small-town and suburban mayors from the Midwest. He urged them to push Congress hard to extend the revenue-sharing program, which is due to expire at the end of 1976. During his relaxed and freewheeling exchanges with the mayors, Ford also reinforced his refusal to rescue New York City from its financial crisis (see page 20). Said the President: "Your constituents wouldn't tolerate it if you ran your city as badly as New York City has been...