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...monsters. "The new Cadillac is a swell car," said a Los Angeles supersalesman of a smaller brand, "but will you have enough money left over to buy a new garage to fit it?" Some people cut sections out of their garage walls, let bumpers protrude. Complained a Chicago motorist: "My garage fits so close, it's like the skin on a grape...
Embraceable You. In Montgomery, Ala., after Motorist Lawrence Colley explained that the reason he ran 40 ft. off the road, tore down a fence and rammed into a tree was that his girl was "holding me too tight" and "I couldn't hold her and the wheel, too," Judge John B. Scott dismissed a reckless driving charge, fined Colley only for driving without a license and without license plates, remarked, "I'm convinced it could have happened as he said...
This week the safety hysteria reached a new pitch with the action of traffic officials in Westchester County, New York. In order better to propagate their gospel, they to make a short speech to each motorist as he drove up to the play booth. As they took the dime, they were to say, "This is president Eisenhower's safe driving day, so please be careful...
...Westchester appeal is a sorry infringement of the motorist's right of privacy. Aside from considerations of taste, it poses certain Constitutional questions. No one doubts that the Supreme Court would block any move of the Internal Revenue Department to print little mottoes at the bottom of its forms, like "A Family That Prays Together, stays Together." It seems unlikely that Westchester County has the right to sermon a similarly captive audience on the virtues of safety...
Spectator Sport. In Pasco, Wash., Motorist Lonnie Stephens took his eyes from the road to watch a man landing a fish, drove over an embankment and almost into the Columbia River, got a ticket for inattention to driving from the fisherman, a state patrolman...