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Four cars in four years have smashed into Bridge 238 on the Kansas Turnpike near Topeka. In each case, the driver was the lone occupant, and he was killed. In each case, turnpike police made the same notation on their report: daylight, clear, road dry, level and straight, no skid marks. "Cause: improper driving." Or was it suicide? No one can know for sure, but more and more police and traffic experts suspect that "autocide," as one expert calls it, is an important cause of traffic deaths...
...point out. He is unmistakably the best winner in at least five years, since Alan Dugan; and the Yale award itself, I would argue, is the most significant of our domestic awards, incapable of the antiquarianism to which Pulitzer judges seem so prone, and also (under Dudley Witts's lone and brilliant editorship) unthreatened by the coterie pressures and needs to compromise that seem to sway some National Book Award panels. Of course no prize means much, but I am trying to give some broad definition to Tate's achievement...
Captain Ed Franquemont won 5-2 in a skillful match at 152 pounds for the Crimson's lone middleweight victory...
Command Post. An early work, Zyklus (1955), was relatively baroque and totally unelectrical. A lone musician, encircled by 40 pieces of percussive hardware, moved busily among them, making light, tinkling noises and harsh rasps and thumps. The score, which was mounted on a revolving ring, allowed the musician to begin where he pleased; when he came full circle, the piece was over. Two other works were played on a tape recorder that Stockhausen himself operated from his command post in the tenth row, modulating and ricocheting the sound among four huge speakers mounted in the auditorium...
...thirds of the French banking industry dozes along under government ownership, and most private bankers are too timid to fight. The lone tiger is a bald dynamo of 66, Jean Reyre, president and director general of the Banque de Paris et des Pays-Bas. With at least a small stake in almost every big French industry, Reyre's "Paribas" spreads its investments across the world. They range from manganese ore in Gabon and gold in South Africa to factories in India and Russia...