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Rules of the Road. In Kansas, Ill., village cops arrested three state troopers for hauling overloaded trucks from the highways into the village for weighing, thereby violating the village's own maximum load limit...
...significant to note that the varsity defeated Army without its biggest offensive weapon, tailback Dick Clasby. Clasby, who inherited the load when Carroll Lowenstein was drafted, was limited to holding for extra-point attempts. However, he got a chance to rest his bruised hip and should be ready to go next week...
...Steve's Cafe. "Best steaks on Route 66," he claims, with the truck driver's air of finality about such matters. There he had time for his meal, no time for trivial talk. A short distance behind him rolled another Consolidated truck, with a "straight load"-goods without such a demanding time schedule. If #684 were to break down, they would switch trailers and the other driver would haul TIME to St. Louis. It hasn't happened...
...helping the Turk is by no means finished. The load of supporting his military establishment is simply too great for his economy. This year alone his deficit, out of a total budget of 1.5 billion Turkish lira ($530 million), is 234 million lira. In 1946, the last year before we joined up with Turkey, the army cost 40.59% of the country's budget. We have cut this to 30.9% and trimmed an oversize force of 900,000 men to just about half that, and at the same time actually doubled its firepower...
...Democratic burro was hungry for party funds, and some of the men who carried the party load of getting out the vote were hungry for personal rewards. In expanded federal agencies there were green pastures for both. The friendship boys from city hall, who made up the Democratic burrocracy, thrived on the new bureaucracy...