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...sodium. Says Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest: "It is unlikely that the school-age child whose father or mother has hypertension will scrutinize labels, or the black teen-ager whose blood pressure is slightly above normal, or the 35-year-old trucker whose diet consists largely of convenience and restaurant foods...
...pretty then and a trucker drove up next to me and said 'You going to the depot? Want a ride sister?' I said 'You betcha, fella' and hopped right in." She is older now; her hair is silver, but she is still pretty. Somehow, it's not hard to imagine the Congresswoman from New Jersey doing the same thing today Illegible...
...temporarily closed. In Prince Georges County, Md., by contrast, a judge who suddenly found himself short of jurors simply sent sheriffs deputies out to round up some citizens. Among the 20 or so corralled were a woman heading home with a bag of groceries and an angry trucker with a load of wet cement. In South Carolina's Hampton County, everything depends on an antique system in which a child under ten or a blind person sits in court and pulls the names of potential jurors from a metal box. Says Marjorie Avant, a courthouse employee: "No one ever...
Gunvor Rosen's diet would put a trucker to shame. Several truckers, in fact. Each day the Swede tucks in the equivalent of 15 eggs, 6½ Ibs. of potatoes, 41/2 Ibs. of pork and liver, one package of bacon, four steaks, twelve slices of roast beef, two quarts of ice cream, 1 Ib. of butter, several loaves of bread, 20 quarts of tea and light beer...
...pounding from overloaded coal trucks, drivers bitterly complain that most of their tires blow out before they wear out. The main road between Baton Rouge and Shreveport, La., is so bumpy that freight haulers avoid it by going some 130 miles out of their way through eastern Texas. Says Trucker John Wooley, a former rodeo cowboy: "That road just tears a rig apart. It's like riding a bucking bronco." In California, Highway 101 outside San Jose is full of holes. Says Jon Carroll, a senior editor at New West magazine: "There are many blood alleys in California...