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...terrified, struggling numbly south toward Saigon. The Communists shelled and machine-gunned some columns. The refugees stumbled on across the corpses and the dying. From the Danang airfield, the last plane took off with men clinging to the landing gear and stairs. Some who went aloft crouched in the wheel housings were crushed as the landing gear cranked up. Along the coast, ARVN soldiers deserted their families and in some cases shot civilians for a place on a boat...
...Dallas on their VCR and remotecontrolled color TV. When 6-ft. 4-in. Dan stretches out on the double bed for a night's sleep, Robin, who quit her job in a tax collection office to become one of the nation's 48,600 licensed women drivers, takes the wheel. The old stereotype? "We don't associate with that," says Robin. Indeed, they do not even communicate much with other drivers over the ubiquitous CB radio. They prefer to schedule upcoming jobs on a mobile cellular telephone...
...Says Double Eagle President Ray Miller: "If a load of West Coast produce has to be East in three days, not three weeks, a husband and wife team with a sleeper can do the job." Lone drivers must either bunk up at cracker-box motels or slump over the wheel after the maximum ten-hour stretch allowed by federal regulation. Spelled by co-drivers, truckers sometimes sleep in their living quarters or just stand, walk around and ease white-line tension. "The better the equipment, the safer the ride," says Tom Phillips, 24, who just purchased a $75,000 International...
During Spring Break, Woods participated in the wheel-spinning action and spent an all expense paid weekend--featuring fine dining and posh hotel accomodations--in Hollywood, Calif...
...show, contestants who correctly answer "general knowledge trivia questions" are permitted to spin the "Whammy wheel" which offers cash and prizes. But, if the "whyammy" turns up, not only does the player lose a turn, but also all the prizes and money which he or she had previously accumulated. Woods answered three questions correctly and spun three times, but in each turn he spun a "whammy...