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America's unrequited love of the open road
May 27, 2012
May 27, 2012
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(CBS News) To HIT THE ROAD has long been a rite of the American summer. But how did that open highway we dreamed of all winter get so clogged and riddled with potholes? Our Cover Story is reported now by Mark Strassmann:
Although we may sing praises to purple mountain majesties, to spacious skies and amber waves of grain, the truth is when we drive across America the beautiful, for the most part, the view we see is the highway.
Fact is, roads have defined our landscape even before the first drop of concrete was poured.
"In the very beginning,
Although we may sing praises to purple mountain majesties, to spacious skies and amber waves of grain, the truth is when we drive across America the beautiful, for the most part, the view we see is the highway.
Fact is, roads have defined our landscape even before the first drop of concrete was poured.
"In the very beginning,
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