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...turned out to be Margaret McConnell, a fashion artist for Marshall Field's department store and a top photographer's model (she was the Coca-Cola girl of the period and the first girl to appear in a color photograph for Camel cigarettes). It was two months more before Pereira managed to start a conversation with her on a bus, and four years after that they were married. Today they have a son and a daughter: Bill Jr., 25, and Monica...
...railroad operating unions. Instead, the Southern has carried on its own fight in its own way against outmoded work rules, particularly the rule requiring a fireman in the cab of every diesel locomotive. Says an executive of the 100%-diesel Southern: "We need locomotive firemen about like we need camel watchers...
...questions of underage smokers (who are breaking the law in 46 states whenever they buy cigarettes), four states are considering imposing restrictions on the machines. Vending machines can stock up to 20 brands, and are so well patronized that all the cigarette companies except top-selling R. J. Reynolds (Camel, Winston, Salem) offer premiums of up to $32.10 annually per machine to vendors who agree to stock their brands...
...horse, a rifle with sufficient cartridge bandoleers, and a woman who can bear strong sons. For generations, the lowland Arab has been terrorized by the mountain Kurd. An Arab proverb says. "There are three plagues in the world: the rat. the locust and the Kurd." The Kurds reply. "A camel is not an animal, and an Arab is not a human being...
...Designer Cecil Beaton) as "an authoritative crane." Though she is a generous flatterer of the physical attributes of others, even her own admiring friends must strain to return a compliment ("Well," said one, straining, "she has a strange and marvelous spine"). Her walk has been described as a camel's gait, her nose as something stolen off a cigar-store Indian. Yet thousands of women cut their hair because of her, cream their skins, shorten their sleeves, and belt their coats, all at the iron whim of a woman whose face is as rarely photographed and widely unknown...