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Looking out the windshield from my cramped position in the back seat, I could see little of what lay ahead on the nearly empty highway. Sometimes, out of the window next to me, I'd catch fragments of the passing landscape--usually just mist-surrounded trees or burnt red barns...
...routine entry in the Truro police blotter led to the first discovery. Checking out a resident's complaint, Police Chief Harold Berrio found an abandoned Volkswagen parked in a lonely wooded area known locally as a lovers' lane. On the windshield was a handwritten note explaining that the driver had run out of gas and would return. A few days later, the Teletype clattered the story of the missing girls and gave the registration number of their car; it matched the number that Berrio had dutifully recorded. The car belonged to Patricia Walsh, but when Truro police went...
...first 26 hours, a steady parade of vandals had removed the battery, radiator, air cleaner, radio antenna, windshield wipers, right-hand-side chrome strip, hubcaps, a set of jumper cables, a gas can, a can of car wax, and the left rear tire (the other tires were too worn to be interesting). Nine hours later, random destruction began when two laughing teen-agers tore off the rearview mirror and began throwing it at the headlights and front windshield...
...that Nagy and Miss Gibbs were walking on the sidewalk when a Yellow Cab Co, taxi hit them, throwing Nagy to the ground and carrying Miss Gibbs on the hood until it finally stopped almost one block away next to the Lampoon building, Miss Gibbs shattered the cab's windshield...
...many aspects of modern life. In city after city in the U.S., strikes or slowdowns have closed schools, stopped garbage collection, endangered the public safety. The city itself sometimes seems more malignant enemy than hospitable friend. Looking at the sunset from a Los Angeles freeway-refracted through smog and windshield-Los Angeles Times Columnist Jack Smith wondered what a man from an earlier century might have felt if he had sat beside him in the automobile: "A rational man, like Dr. Johnson, must surely see that the species had at last given up its glimmer of sanity and was annihilating...