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...buying agent for one of the biggest commercial truck deals in automotive history ($100 million for 53,000 trucks) is stocky, tanned Valentim Bouças (pronounced Bo-sas), International Business Machines' vice president in Brazil. He has made a fortune for himself and I.B.M. as a supersalesman and for years he has been an unofficial economic adviser to Brazilian Governments. Few businessmen have as many good contacts in Brazil...
...Fight BO - Bungling Officials...
When the time came to elect a king, the boes looked to their professional ethics. A hobo cannot be a tramp or a bum. He must not beg or steal or ignore soap & water. Now & then he must work a while. His peers elected Bo Sigurd ("Skeets") Simmons, 56, of Detroit, who hitchhiked from New York in seven days, spent $10 for food en route. Ben ("The Coast Kid") Benson, twotime king of the jungles, ran a poor fifth. There were strong hints that Ben was a "greaseball" and never took a bath. Said one hobo: "He's just...
...glass), a "poon-tangophone" (a cigar box and a lathe) and a "latrinophone" (a toilet seat strung with catgut, which went over big on a European U.S.O. tour). To record his Hotchi Cornia, Spike rented a goat that "naa-a-a-ed" when he twisted its tail. In Little Bo Peep Has Lost Her Jeep, the Slickers ripped apart an old auto. When these musical effects proved inadequate to Spike's demands, the band members crunched English walnuts in their teeth, ripped mustard plasters off each other's chests. They did it with considerable and conscious musicianship. Says...
...will be jittery Bo McMillin's and slap-happy Indiana's day of days if Purdue can be hurdled this week. If not, the Big Ten title will go to the winner of the Ohio State-Michigan (both once-beaten) game-and it will still be the Hoosiers' best season...