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They gathered amid the glitzy gaming palaces of Atlantic City, N.J., and took time out for a pickup basketball game. But the 44 Governors who attended the National Governors' Association conference last week were hardly feeling sportive. They spent three days in tense, often heated discussion of the enormous political and fiscal problems handed to the states under President Reagan's "new federalism." Said Wisconsin Governor Lee Dreyfus: "There is some apprehension on the part of the Governors that we are getting the short end of the stick." Said Tennessee's Lamar Alexander: "We have nothing...
...about nine months ago when the cruisers arrived. Trolling around in cars is the all-American pastime, but California cruisers have transformed it into an elaborate ritual. Not just any car will do. The idea is to attract attention. Stereos, painted names and modified engines are routine. A compact pickup with giant wheels is better. A truly "clean ride" is a lowrider: a 1950s vintage General Motors car, lavishly decorated and fitted with a system of hydraulic lifts that allows it to be impressively raised or lowered...
Black baseball had been around for years when the Negro Leagues were born in the early 1920s. Barnstorming the countryside in ramshackle buses, black teams played 60 or so league games each season, as well as 140 or more pickup affairs against any team, white or black, that promised to pay. They were second-class citizens with first-class talent, sleeping in ballparks when no lodging was available, eating on their buses when restaurants wouldn't seat them, playing two and even three games a day before driving all night to the next one. The end came shortly after...
Take your average family from Los Angeles: Dad's gotta have a car to get to work. Mom's gotta have a car to run all those errands. Juedye (Judy) has to have one to get to the health food store. Mack needs a pickup truck so he can haul around babes in the back of it (you really shouldn't show your face at a beach down there unless you got a pick up to haul around babes in). And little Flowertruth has to have one for her 16th birthday. And each family has a couple of spares...
...been trying to touch the damn thing. There is something going on here. A lot of people are here and a lot are embarrassed. Some are curious, and some of us are disdainfully amused and aloof. That pose doesn't last long, though. A couple drove up in their pickup truck from Tennessee, six hours away. It's not surprising. It's a Friday night, and there probably isn't a whole hell of a lot going on in Knoxville for the weekend. The couple is in their forties. He's one of those incredibly wiry men and looks like...