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Back during the dusty, tire-patching era of the Pope-Hartford and the Apperson Jackrabbit, the average U.S. citizen seldom got behind an automobile wheel without secretly feeling a little like a man climbing aboard a racing camel or a Mallet locomotive. In the years since, he has gone right on believing that only his innate coolness, intelligence and mechanical aptitude have enabled him to remain the master of the gas buggy. But last week Northwestern University's Traffic Institute had news...
...Francisco to Tokyo. In its scramble for other cargoes, Seaboard has shuttled the Aga Khan's race horses across the Atlantic, flown German war brides to the U.S., elephants from Siam to New York. A Turkish manufacturer ships sausage skins from Teheran, thereby outfoxing hijackers who raided his camel caravans...
...first recorded air-conditioning sys tems was devised in the 8th century by the Caliph al-Mahdi of Bagdad. He transported snow from the Zagros Mountains via camel trains, packed it in. the double walls of his summer home...
...have just broken the camel's back...
...bean fields, but the question of what to do about a displaced quarter-mile of vital state highway still remained. Like a link of pontoon bridge that has drifted downstream, one stretch of the highway lay useless at the valley's bottom, and the vagrant mountain sat camel-like astride the rest. Jordan's ministers estimated that it would cost $400,000 and 40,000 man-days of labor to push the mountain aside, and Jordan's budget could never stand it. Then up stepped John Monroe, who had come to Jordan on a Point Four project...