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Dangerous as the U.S. motorist may be to himself and others, he can take some consolation from the fact that his European counterpart is worse. The United Nations' Economic Commission for Europe recently reported that there are twice as many fatalities per miles driven in Europe as there are in the U.S. In 1963, 80,000 Europeans were killed on the road; with twice as much traffic, the U.S. had only 43,400 highway deaths. Concluded the commission: "For the most part, these differences can only be explained by better driving by the people who use the roads...
...this is the kind of issue on which honest men may honestly differ. Philadelphia's Urban Renewal Chief Edmund Bacon (TIME cover, Nov. 6), who is as much concerned with esthetic values as any other planner alive, defends the elevated highway: "Burying the expressway would cut off the motorist's view of what we are trying to do, to develop Society Hill...
There is, nevertheless, the growing feeling that the motorist who is just passing through cannot always be allowed to take precedence over the people who actually live there. Reflecting on the crisis in La Canada, the Los Angeles Times mused: "Now that the basic routes have been built, there is ever-increasing concern over the direction that future freeways should take. Does not a diminishing return set in when remaining residential and scenic areas are threatened with conversion into concrete freeway lanes? There is still time to plan the freeways of the future, but we are running out of community...
...horns" ward off evil spirits. But if the fingers point upward? Ah, the corna instantly sneers that the addressee is a cuckold. The gesture is so unbearable that in Verona recently a truck driver was fined $50 and court costs for understandably lofting the corna at a madly beeping motorist...
...last two revenuers killed in a liquor raid were shot a little more than a year ago in Alabama's Bibb County. Even so, argued the feds in U.S. v. Gainey, chances that innocent hunters may stumble on stills are "very, very small. Other rural possibilities-a lost motorist or an airman who parachutes to safety-are even more remote." Indeed, the feds figured the odds against a stranger ever tangling with moonshiners...