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...mister driving has an Oklahoma accent and a square jaw like one Merilee once knew. As they near the Greyhound Station in San Bernadino, she asks if she can kiss him goodbye. Doubtfully he says don't mind if you do. They are at a stoplight. Merilee leans over Girl and her sweet mouth covers the man's, drawing strength and breath and everlasting resolution from him. He is startled and the cars behind him are tooting their horns. "What was that all about, hon?" he asks...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

While driving in Akron last year, James Nosis, 52, became enraged at a hornblowing motorist who passed his car. At the next stoplight, he challenged the other driver, 65-year-old Charles Ripple, to a fight. Though Ripple and his wife pleaded that he suffered from a heart condition, Nosis pursued them to their suburban home and made menacing gestures in the driveway. After Mrs. Ripple went inside to call the sheriff, her husband collapsed. Less than an hour later, he died of a heart attack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Criminal Law: Death by Agitation | 11/14/1969 | See Source »

...know, with all the contacts you have, it is not hard to find a big sum," David later explained. When Baron Guy arrived to pay off in person, Stadnik commandeered the bank's chauffeured car and made a dramatic getaway run. But alerted police moved in at a stoplight, smashed a window and stunned Stadnik with a pistol butt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 3, 1969 | 10/3/1969 | See Source »

Black history has made people aware that white people did not give America such things as the stoplight, the shoe last, heart operations and sugar refining but that black people did this. That John Smith did not develop corn and tobacco but learned to grow these crops from the Indians. And the beat goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Black IQs A Professor Replies . . . | 3/13/1969 | See Source »

...Ohio Turnpike and Indiana Toll Road (both posted Interstate 80/90), then, using the recently completed Chicago bypass, proceed on Interstate 80 to the outskirts of Council Bluffs, Iowa, join Interstate 29 to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and then back on Interstate 90 to Chamberlain, S. Dak. - all without a stoplight. Total distance: 1,802 mi. Total tolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: No Stops to Chamberlain, S. Dak. | 5/17/1968 | See Source »

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