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Time was when high-spirited citizens of Buffalo Gap. Texas (pop. 335) let off steam by bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...
...authentic than the dated T-shirts and Levi's of the dancers, the onlookers could claim to be competent critics. On hand as extras, they were members of the Massadors Division of the Sportsmen, storm troopers from Manhattan's legions of delinquency. And with them-carrying a clip board and wearing striped toreador pants, white-flower earrings and gold sandals-was the woman who had rounded them...
...town of Girard (pop. 2,500), whence Haldeman-Julius' Little Blue Books issued in a smudgy, cerulean stream that sometimes reached 65,000 a day. In newspaper ads from coast to coast he ran his enticing list of titles-eventually more than 2,000-and invited readers to clip the coupons. Among those who did were the late Admiral Richard E. Byrd, who took a supply to the South Pole, and a Texas oilman who bought 14 packages of 700 books each (total cost: $486.50) to ensure his grandchildren a rounded education...
Powerful Stimulant. Signs of second-half improvement are already visible. Steel orders show promise of increasing (see below). Auto sales in mid-July hit the fastest clip in four years, with dealers selling an average of 17,485 U.S.-built cars daily. For the first six months, the new compacts accounted for 25.1% of the market. Last week General Motors was readying its new compact, one of a new group of scaled-down big cars that will hit the 1961 market. Its name: the Oldsmobile F-85, a smaller version of its big-car brother with a new eight-cylinder...
...short of record 1959. The reason was no big slump in business-most sales were as good as or better than last year-but rising costs that chewed up profits, and high inventories caused by overoptimistic expectations. With the U.S. consumer presumably poised to buy at an even faster clip in the second half of 1960, most businessmen were confident that better profits were...