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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1970 ■niE DECREE a freefi look by Tom Hardison (Continued From Page 4) or wave, and automatically the other driver regardless if he were executing a 180 degree turn or putting the make on his woman would wave back. Even if he had to turn around and catch up with us and then pass on a yellow Iine--They would wave. Definitely. Well, being also a quiet, un assuming soul I went on for a month or so thinking old Bird must know every human in town with a sports car. Finally I asked, and he explained the Bro therhood. "Well," he said, “sometime between the MGTC and the MG TD people who owned sports cars began waying at each other-. You know, to acknowledge that you too were a poor fool at heart, cramped, cribbed and crimped in yon tiny car.” There was a brotherhood, he explained that had since grown so that now everybody in a sports car waved and smiled and blinked lights at other sports cars. They knew that each other was a nut of a different design that enjoyed leaky tops and exorbinate repairs prices, speeding through turns tryingto figure out the difference of rack and pinion steering. There was just something that bond ed sports cars together, he couldn’t really explain why. “Misery enjoys company,” he finally said. So after that when me and old Bannanas Bird went romping through town I hoisted my thumb at every car not made in America. And Bird too, but due to his for mal education of the grand ma chines (he owned one) his taste was refined. No volkswagons, no little sedans. Just sports: cars. “Don’t wave at Jags or ’vet- tes. They tend to laugh at you rather than waving at you,” he said. All this long exposition brought me to remembering when I finally closed the deal on my MGB. Immediately I went cruis ing through the streets of the old hometown searching for a sports car to thumb, ned at a stoplight, I prepar- I saw one coming my way af ter a time: a sleek yellow MGA about one half of the way re stored. Oh good, I thought, I can thumb the Father of the B. I did and the driver look ed at me like he was saying “where did I meet that joker?” No matter, the next would know about the Brotherhood. But he didn’t--The Triumph fast- back GT 6 roared passed as I waved but it was definite ly a finger other than the thumb that he returned. The grey MGB didn’t even wave--but instead flashed a sardonic grin that was a lit tle wider than his windshield. Finally almost home and to tally dejected I saw ahead, coming my way a brand new, highly polished MG Midget— British Racing Green, fog lamps car placques—the works. He won’t wave, I thought--so I wasn’t goingto. Wewerestop- ing to go straight, he was going to turn to his left. We look ed at each other’s cars, at our faces, and began to sheepish ly smile. We waved, both at the same time and I sensed from his face that he too want ed to be part of the Brother hood. I let him turn, due to the long line of traffic behind me and he tooted his horn in appre ciation. He was the only one all day that waved--It’s sad that now, after a year only occasionally can I find someone who waves back. I think that they know about the brotherhood—they • just don’t give a damn about it. Just like in everything else in life everyone is getting a lit tle too strung out. Number one, all alone. The Brother hood is failing . . . even in vein as basic to Americans cars nobody notices. The Bro therhood is failing because we are falling to relate to some body elses leaky tops or exor binate forced prices; The bro therhood Is falling completely down the line from tin cans floating on hard rubber balloons to flesh walking with holes in the soles of shoes. And only once in a while will you find someone who willnotice--much less wave. PBT+Us$$4U V I / ^ i ''t. Peoples Bank knows the formula ^ for full banking service i. to students and graduates ^ ’ Checking Accounts ; Savings Accounts What can we do for you today? f & Trust Gompahy Where people make the difference" ^ : ■ Growing and Serving in Northeastern North Cardfiha Juniors don’t do anything half-way. It’s either super-short or long- and-luscious, the way Rosenbloom- Levy shapes this wild and wonderful liberated peasant... / Your own* freedom of dressing .. . sweeping down to your pink toes, (or “shoed” in our newly decorated, en tirely new and groovy shoe department) waisted empire-high and sleeved in a delici ous little puff. A wild ly feminine feeling... of running through grass or down city streets. The feeling being you, the individual, in a grand assortment of prints .. . Indian and Peasant as well as soft, fluid solid colors in Sizes S-M-L. Only $16 To $30 Corner “No Name Yet” In Our Brand New FIRST FLOOR ^ Downtovm Rocky Mount
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