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...porch. About the same time, in downtown Sosúa, a telephone call sent an office clerk named Pedro Clisante, 28, put-putting away on his motorbike on an errand that would take him past a military post. As Clisante approached, a soldier blasted him off his bike. Two days earlier, near the provincial capital of Santiago, Epedio Jesús Cabrera had picked up a "hitchhiker" and was later found knifed to death...
Europeans are awed by Honda's performance. "It's time British firms copied Japanese know-how," grumped London's Daily Mirror. One British manufacturer took a Honda bike apart, marveled: "It's made like a watch. And it isn't a copy of anything." Basking in such reluctant foreign tributes, Honda in 1960 produced 750,000 machines-20% of total world output-and made pre-tax profits of $14.2 million on sales of $136.5 million. This year's racing successes have obliged Honda to increase production to 85,000 machines a month, boosted...
Manhattan bike riders find that they can snake easily through the traffic snarls, making their way through narrow openings where not even a Volkswagen could pass. Some cyclists are frightened by their first experience of heavy traffic, but, says Allen Bragdon, a publishing executive who pedals to work with an attache case strapped to his bike, "it's really quite safe. Everyone thinks, 'Look at that fool on the bike. Let's stay away from him.' " Bicycling gives the riders a strong sense of independence. "You're a free agent," says Bragdon...
Phyllis Shaw, a writer for an IBM house organ, Business Machine, finds city cycling enough of an oddity to provoke curiosity and generate sympathy. Once she dashed into a department store shortly before closing time without locking her bike properly, came out to find a strange man standing guard over it. "All he said was 'I'm glad you came back. I have to catch a train, but I was afraid that someone would steal your bike.'" At the movies, she adds, "I usually put it where the person in the box office...
Doormen, however, look on the riders with disdain; and sometimes, owning a bicycle in Manhattan is as frustrating as owning a car. A short time ago, Theater Owner Daniel Talbot came downtown from his apartment for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel. The hotel refused to let him park his bike in the lobby, a policeman told him to get it off the sidewalk, a garage attendant would not let him park in his lot even if he paid regular prices. He moved...