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...once had a multimillion dollar turquoise business, but he'd lost it all through some bad breaks, including his back and left leg, and had traded in his 1976 Jag for a 1960 Rambler. He took me to a gas station in Gallup, where two Mexicans in a pickup truck let me ride in the back and either watch New Mexico fade away backwards, or, if I turned around, to watch the driver's t-shirt, which contained the local folk wisdom of "Four Wheelers Eat More Bush...
...drilling rig near Chickasha, Okla., was suddenly surrounded by three bandits wearing ski masks and brandishing shotguns. Without uttering a word, the gunmen removed twelve tungsten carbide drill bits worth about $27,000 from the rig's storage shed and then fled with their booty in the crew's pickup truck...
Such sentiments are typical enough in this part of western Wyoming, which still enjoys a lingering sense of pioneer independence and unabashed patriotism. Legends like KEEP AMERICA GREEN and JOIN THE ARMY adorn the bumpers of many a local pickup that rolls into the A & A. Shepherd is not as out of place in this environment as he thinks, though. The A & A looks pretty much the way most gas stations everywhere did before self-service and digital pump readouts set in. But it is only a lasso's throw away from Interstate 80, America's main street...
Sophomore running back Paul Connors, who runs like a cross between a sewing machine ar-1 a machete, burst up the middle for a 17-yd. pickup, his longest of the day, putting Harvard at the Lions' 25-yard line. But the drive finally petered out when on third down and seven yards to go for a TD, Sablock took a pitch out from Brown and tossed to Rich Horner, who caught the ball but landed outside of the endzone stripe. Bosnic then came on to give Harvard a 3-0 first-quarter lead...
...partisans on either side are willing to budge. The other weekend 300 local residents blocked access roads to the BWCA with cars and pickup trucks. "Our vacation is rather ruined," complained one frustrated canoeist. Retorted a protester: "Our lives are rather ruined...