Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state like New York (as much as 23? per package) and count the profits. This year, buttleggers should gross some $500 million, most of it pocketed by organized criminals. Concerned tax agents from eight government units (the states of Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, plus New York City) guess they are losing up to $300 million annually in revenues through interstate smuggling...
...tell you're in the South, cruising along 1-95 after Washington, is that everyone you meet-gas station attendants, waitresses--has a Southern accent. At first, particularly in Virginia, the South is very ostentatious about itself, too self-consciously Southern. The roadside restaurants are packaged but named after Aunt Emmy or somebody, and they sell Robert E. Lee postcards in gas stations...
...distances between cities become greater, too, in Virginia, and it's possible to engage in elaborate highway strategy aimed at avoiding speeding tickets. A friend of mine subscribes to the Radar Screen theory, which says that police radar machines can't detect a smallish car if it's near a big truck. My friend finds trucks that are going fast, and follows them close begind for hundreds of miles. There are disadvantages to this close behind a truck, you get spewed by exhaust and can't see the road ahead, and for me it's too much of a price...
...After Virginia and a little bit of North Carolina, anyway, you're in the Deep South, where the woods and farms look a little more gagged than before. You can stop at the cigarette factories in Durham for entertainment, and pick up your free pack of cigarettes, or drive off the Interstate and check out small-town grocery stores for local color. There are great peach stands in Georgia, and a huge amusement park outside Atlanta, a city that has resolved its existential dilemmas through relentless financial growth and self-promotion. Everyone in Atlanta is happy and young, pink-cheeked...
Before Secretary Gandy could look at them in Hoover's house, the most sensitive papers were carried off in an FBI truck to West Virginia's Blue Ridge Club, a Shenandoah Mountain hideaway used by innermost FBI officials for regular poker games with CIA and other cronies (TIME, Nov. 3). There the papers were burned in the club's large fireplace. Precisely who ordered this destruction and carried it out has not been disclosed. The three-story club, valued at up to $200,000, burned to the ground in a fire of undetermined cause...