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These great Roman roads of today combine half a dozen principles to achieve a qualitative advance over any earlier road system, or any foreign system. The freeway's wide median strip virtually abolishes head-on collisions and headlight glare. Passing is made so easy that one four-lane freeway can carry about ten times as many cars as two two-way roads. Freeway cloverleafs eliminate the need for intersection stopping; limited access banishes blind entrances and overly frequent inflows of traffic. Gentle grades, ample widths and curves of an easy mathematical beauty let drivers see at least twice...
Cool & Condescending. Last week's 85 contestants had hardly roared away from the starting line when three factory-backed Citroëns were penalized for exceeding Nairobi's posted speed limit of 30 m.p.h. Outside city limits, nature took over. A Peugeot had a headlight demolished by a spleenful buffalo; another car hit a giraffe. Britain's Stirling Moss, essaying a backwoods comeback after the near-fatal accident that forced his retirement from the Grand Prix circuit three years ago, condescended to navigate for Brother-in-Law Erik Carlsson, and lost him cold-amid hot argument-somewhere...
...experiments are well along to make auto-headlight glass from sugar and to substitute sugar for the fats in soap detergents; sugar dissolves easily, does not cause water pollution. And, quite beyond these uses, sugar has one major value that no nation dare ignore: from the rum and cachaza of Brazil to Indonesian Arak, it is the universal base for alcoholic drinks. In Peru, where a drop in the U.S. import quota has caused a 220,000-ton sugar surplus, W. R. Grace & Co. intends to solve a national economic crisis in an ingenious way: Grace will use the excess...
...driving instruction per week with a graduate student in Professor Loft's department, as well as a two-hour classroom session. The first classroom session was devoted to tests of visual acuity, including distance judgment, reaction time, ability to distinguish colors, see in the dark and recover from headlight glare. The remaining classroom sessions included handling the buttons and levers, everyday driving maneuvers, good practices in traffic, on freeways and under bad conditions. When the program has been evaluated, Loft plans to invite all Indiana high school driving teachers to one-day seminars on the plan, so that they...
...been just as well off without that client." What about Junior's five traffic violations and $125 fine for driving after a suspended license? Didn't they indicate a "public be damned'' attitude? Roosevelt thought not, explained one of the violations was for a blown headlight fuse-and anyway, he got his license back after he became the "proud graduate" of a school for frequent traffic offenders. What. Prouty asked, about some $26,000 in taxes that the Internal Revenue Service claimed Junior owed in 1958? A misunderstanding, insisted Roosevelt, but he would happily...