Word: trappings
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...vanishing Americana is cause for nostalgia. Consider the speed trap, that once ubiquitous feature of Crossroads, U.S.A., now largely and mercifully extinct, the victim of interstate highways and perhaps even some slight evolution in civic if not human nature. One malignant exception to progress, however, is the southeastern Georgia town of Ludowici. Named after an immigrant German roofing-tile manufacturer who built a factory there at the turn of the century, it is one of the last remaining speed traps in the country. TIME Correspondent Joseph Kane drove slowly into Ludowici and sent back this report...
...behind the speed trap, and behind everything else in Ludowici, is the county's colorful political boss, Ralph Dawson, 68, a back-country lawyer who has been running Long County since 1932. Always in a brown felt hat and soiled black suit, Dawson heads a political machine that has never lost an election at the county or city level, and he has not taken lightly Maddox's efforts to shut off his speed-trap revenue. Last year Dawson was tossed out of the Governor's office and called a rascal. To which Dawson replied...
...encounter strengthened the Governor's resolve to put up the warning billboards. Keeping them there will be another matter, troopers or no. Two weeks ago, buckshot was fired into the kitchen of the Rev. Raymond Cook, a leader of the city's small antispeed-trap, anti-Dawson clique. Maddox hinted that he would declare martial law, but backed off when he learned from state investigators that there was at least a possibility that the crusading Cook may have fired the shots himself to bring the law down on Dawson...
...River Trap. The government's need to boost morale by any means possible is accentuated by its military failures. Sihanouk had allowed the Communists more or less a free run in Cambodia's border provinces. The Lon Nol government seized power with the announced purpose of finally ridding the nation of the Vietnamese intruders. Today, however, the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong control perhaps twice as much Cambodian territory as they did a month ago. Minister of Information Trinh Hoanh admits uncomfortably: "Before, the Communists weren't occupying our territory. They'd come...
Suspicion. The committee's decision was both tactical and practical. Mills recognized that welfare systems throughout the country are on the brink of collapse and need more than simple repairs. Also, he was caught off guard by the Nixon message, and suspected a political trap. When HEW Secretary Robert Finch began attacking the Ways and Means Committee in public statements for delaying the welfare bill, Mills came to believe that the Administration, with an eye to this year's congressional and gubernatorial elections, was more interested in a campaign issue than welfare reform. Mills thought that Nixon would...