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...ground, shoved a tube with a medical pellet down their throats, rammed a needle into their shoulders to vaccinate against blackleg and hemorrhagic septicemia, slashed their ears with the ranch identifying mark, burned a brand into their hips. Male calves were castrated, their testes dumped into a bucket to be served, fried in fat, as a dinner treat. Two ways to castrate male lambs had already been demonstrated: by knife, and by cowboy's teeth. Instructor Ernie Anderson, wearing blood-spattered Levi's, grinned proudly. "The boys are doing fine, just fine-they're going to make...
...always, the Italians were there with gorgeous Ferraris, Maseratis, Lamborghinis and Lancias, plus a wicked-looking newcomer: the Bizzarrini G.T. America, which does up to 175 m.p.h. on its Corvette engine, has bucket seats that look more like astro naut couches. Cost...
...scrupulous about caviar, for instance, that he once opened seven jars in a row before finding one that he considered satisfactory. He insisted on hand-dried Baccarat glasses and the finest wines, although he would also serve a bottle of milk to lohn F. Kennedy in a silver ice bucket as if it were champagne...
When other companies moved in on the compact market with racy V-8 engines and bucket seats, A.M.C. was styled out. With growing national prosperity, the desire for compacts and economy faded. And for the small segment of buyers still primarily concerned with economy, high production costs make A.M.C. Americans $200 to $300 more expensive than throaty little Volkswagens. The Volks, though smaller and lighter than the American, outsells it better than 4 to 1 in the economy market, for which they compete...
...that pledge; the closest his complex now comes to providing the instruments of war is in its production of trucks and transport planes for the West German Bundeswehr. Patiently rebuilding from defeat, Krupp diversified to the extent that Krupp-owned concerns now turn out not only locomotives, aircraft, huge bucket dredgers and machine tools but even mineral water and orchids. Last year Krupp sales amounted to well over $1 billion, thus proving the point made by one of Alfried's corporate aides, who says pridefully: "Peace pays...