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...engine that sits astern of the rear axle. The car's top speed is 78 m.p.h. against 74 m.p.h. for the Volkswagen bug; it gets 38 miles to the gallon against Renault's 39. While far from fancy, the plastic interior trim is durable. Its two front bucket seats fold back for sleeping, and the car's rack-and-pinion steering makes for good road-holding quality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Czechoslovakia: Competing with the West | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...excitement centered around Yale's drive for 100 points and Johnson's drive for his personal career high of 32. Eli sophomore Kevin Hart hit a jump shot for the century mark with 20 seconds left, but Johnson--completely worn out--couldn't find the range for his big bucket...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Topples Hoopsters, 100 - 75 | 2/25/1967 | See Source »

...Brown Billy Reynolds threw in a few outside jump shots and Dave Gale and Steve Sigur worked fairly competenty around the bucket, but it was pretty much a Crimson night...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Basketball Team to Meet Bruins, Elis Once Again | 2/24/1967 | See Source »

After a shoddy start, Harvard jumped back into the game virtually with the second half tip-off. Bob Johnson grabbed the ball and streaked in unmolested for a quick bucket to make it 37-32, Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Basketball Team Downs Harvard, 84-78 | 2/18/1967 | See Source »

Loud Whistle. The semiannual catalogue, as fascinating for prose as for merchandise touted, contained more than 400 items ranging from Bean's Improved Sandwich Spreader to a collapsible bait bucket. Many of the goods Bean designed himself; most he personally tested on the trails. In a spare, hardsell style that would be instructive to many an advertising copywriter, the catalogue once plugged a Combination Compass, Match Case and Whistle by noting that "the Whistle is loud enough to be heard a long distance." Bean's Deer Toter, a stretcher ingeniously rigged to a bicycle wheel, was described...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salesmen: Merchant of the Maine Woods | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

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