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...sport such features as velour upholstery, vinyl roofs, simulated-wood instrument panels, even chrome-plated grilles and hood ornaments. Such features are pushing prices up close to what drivers used to pay for big cars; a Plymouth Valiant two-door hardtop with all those features, plus three-speed windshield wipers, folding armrest and several other amenities, lists at the factory for about $3,500. Drivers are buying cars plain and fancy, low-and high-priced-anything, as long as it is small...
...exploded in violence as the more mindless owner-drivers tried to sweep the highways clear of trucks by intimidating nonstriking truckers. One driver, Claudie Nix, 50, was fatally shot in his moving truck near Bridgeville, Del.; earlier, another driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove his rig near East Liverpool, Ohio. Still other drivers were dragged from their cabs and beaten. Strikers waited...
...driver, Ronald Engst, 33, was killed when a rock was thrown through his windshield and his truck crashed outside Allentown, Pa. In Ohio, authorities reported water streaming from the radiators of at least ten rigs, which had been punctured by gunfire; one driver was shot in the shoulder and hospitalized. In New Jersey, independents picketed gasoline terminals owned by Hess, Amoco and Chevron, trying to prevent shipments to service stations. State police escorted trucks through strife-torn areas outside Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Akron, Youngstown and Warren, Ohio. At week's end Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor Ernest P. Kline called...
...case, the Administration continues to view rationing as a last resort. Before ordering it, Simon is likely to try several other measures: perhaps gasless Saturdays, perhaps a complicated system of colored windshield stickers designed to keep every car off the road one day a week. Red, for example, might mean no driving Monday...
...what truth could the eager boy see through the window of an azure tinted windshield? Cruising through the neon-tinted streets as boy, his life blurred imperceptibly so the '57 Chevy he started out in became that same black Cadillac and he was indeed on the way to Shangri...