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Born in West Virginia, the 42-year-old lawman drove a tractor trailer for 17 years. He also had a country-music band in which his wife Gayle Lynne played bass. One night he watched a man get shot during a fight in front of the grandstand, and he "stopped raisin' hell" and turned to police work. Gayle Lynne said, "What're you gonna do? Save the world?" And he said, "No. If I can just save one person, it'll be worth it." He also gave up drinking and kicked his cigar habit...
Today, to supplement his wages, Judkins sleeps with snakes. "You get a salary, which isn't much," he explained, "and then you try to do something else to earn some real money. Every circus is like that." In Judkins' case, this means driving a tractor trailer packed with anacondas, boa constrictors and pythons, as well as the odd tarantula, and sleeping in it too. At each town, he opens his establishment on the midway and charges people 75 cents to view his creatures. It is not exactly what he had in mind when he was majoring in psychology and political...
...cheaper currency is particularly welcome in the industrial Midwest, / where some companies have never fully recovered from the past recession. "The reaction here is very positive," says Stephen Newhouse, a spokesman for Caterpillar Tractor (1985 sales: $6.7 billion), which does some 50% of its business overseas. "A cheaper dollar certainly gives us immediate help in countries where we compete with Komatsu of Japan." American carmakers also are delighted because the declining dollar removes some of the $2,000-per-car cost advantage that Japanese auto firms have held in the U.S. Partly as a result, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca announced...
Father Gilbert Gauthe, a Roman Catholic priest, delivered spellbinding funeral sermons, won local respect by rescuing a man who was trapped under an overturned tractor, and impressed many older women with his charm in Louisiana's Vermilion Parish. But most of all, he was a Pied Piper for the children. He would take them on wilderness trips, play games and invite favored boys to spend the weekend in the rectory...
...sunshine, is followed by one of a bosomy young woman, the same who must pose for those calendars found in auto-parts stores. She almost has on clothes, and she is offering to check a trucker's oil. The next slide is a side view of a whole tractor-trailer rig, its 18 wheels gleaming and spoked. It is followed by one of a blond bulging out of a hint of cop clothes writing a naughty trucker a ticket...