THE TRUTH
John Keats (the reporter, not the poet) has tried to explain the relation between the average American and his automobile as a love affair. It is hardly that, but it is at least a mar- riage of convenience. America would be impossible, or at least improbably different, without the automobile. In the affluent society it is the key to abundant life. But, as we discover anew on every Fourth of July and Labor Day weekend, the Vietnam war isn’t in it with the automobile as a killer. It is also the key to abundant death. Man v. Machine
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