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Cars & Roads. More than 250,000 Americans will buy and rent cars to see Europe, pay $50 per day for chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and $16 per day for Volkswagen buses. Cars can be rented through the American Automobile Association and from Hertz and Avis in advance, or from firms on...
Whooping Congress man. A migratory species of Washington rara avis best known for raucous cries and laying eggs in exotic places. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, The Scrutable Occidental.
THE CONGRESS The Scrutable Occidental There will always be a whooping crane, Deo volente. And there will probably always be a whooping Congressman. This migratory species is recognized by its raucous cry and by its frequent fumbling, bumbling, freeloading flights to exotic lands, where it lays eggs of oddest shapes...
Picketing Promoter. At 38, Douglas could well be talking about himself. He remembers little about his early childhood except that his real name is Jonathan Aivaz (pronounced Avis), that he was born in Iran in 1921, first son of a millionaire Assyrian camel-caravan operator, and that his family fled...
New Tricks. Both American Express and Diners' furiously scouted out and signed up new services. American Express won a hand by signing Manhattan's Toots Shor restaurant, long a credit-card holdout. Diners' bounced right back by announcing a contract with the Stork Club, another holdout. American...