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...Maass says he hopes to develop "a new type of irrigation." He wants to bring exotic crops, such as Italian seedless to intoes, into the Mojave Desert or somewhere similar, and is "fairly far along in working out the project." He says the prospect of living out of a trailer in the desert doesn't faze him since he does not plan to live there full-time...
...Massachusetts Megabucks lottery. His prize: more than $2 million in annual installments of $113,000 for 20 years. Costello's first purchases were two "double-wide" mobile homes (cost: $30,000 each furnished), one to replace the Maine shack and the other to be used as a vacation trailer in Leesburg, Fla. For his "lady friend," he bought a new Buick...
Hazel Taylor and his wife Yvonne joined hands in terror as the tornado funnel raced toward their mobile home in Abney, S.C. The winds tore the trailer apart, lifted up the Taylors and whirled them 100 ft. through the air like two figures from the second circle of Dante's Inferno. Rescue workers found them lying in a field, dazed but alive-and still holding hands...
Tests by the Department of Transportation (DOT) have shown conclusively that five-axeled trailer rigs carrying 99,000 pounds of cargo--the ostensible limit--do as much damage to a highway as 96 cars. Moreover, DOT spot checks have also found that at any time 25 to 35 percent of all trucks on the road to as much as 133,000 pounds every additional 1000 pounds cargo does more than just 1000 pounds' worth of damage...
Connecticut had the right idea. Its Attorney General, Joseph Lieberman, made as his major case against the double-trailers the fact that they roll and sway uncontrollably on what in his state are commuter-laden highways--which is true. But the less dramatic and still more serious case against the double-monsters lies in the damage that they and their single-trailer brothers do to the highways--damage brought home forcefully in Connecticut last year when a crumbling bridge on Interstate 95 fell in and took a woman's life with...