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...crushed cars before. My first was an '87 Oldsmobile station wagon that I smashed into a divider two weeks after getting my license. Since then, I've crashed into an IROC, a Camry and two Jeeps - which is not bad considering that I haven't owned a car in eight years. So when I was offered an opportunity to drive Grave Digger, the most famous monster truck in monster truckdom, I felt qualified...
...People traveling in central Australia now share his concern. Holidaymakers who normally camp by the side of the highway have begun clustering at night under the lights of service stations and roadhouses as if in Wild West wagon trains. People are afraid to stop on the open road even to relieve themselves, says Greg Dick, owner of the Aileron roadhouse where the couple had their last meal?of toasted sandwiches?together. "Our toilets are doing a roaring trade." But life will go on. Says Pilton: "The public forgets tragedies very quickly, and there's always new people coming...
Others aren't so sure. "When I bought this place, you could ride up on the ridge and see nothing," says Dube. "Now you see trucks, pipelines, compressor stations. It's funny, I tell people now I know what the Indians felt like when they saw the wagon trains coming...
POSTHUMOUSLY PARDONED. JOHN SNOWDEN, African-American ice-wagon worker who was hanged in 1919 for the murder of a pregnant white woman despite doubtful evidence and pleas by 11 of the 12 jurors for his sentence to be commuted; after the second request for clemency by residents of a city historically divided by race; by Governor Parris Glendening; in Annapolis...
...flatbed truck came and hauled away one of the junked cars from in front of the Hermit's one-story cinderblock house, half a mile down the road. Two junked cars remained, resting on blocks in the yard under raggedy trees. The Hermit drove a Ford Falcon station wagon, built about the time that Saigon fell. All the junked cars were Ford Falcons of the same vintage. He cannibalized the junkers when he needed spare parts...