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...Watkins Glen race of 1949, he met Phil Walters and Bill Frick, who were operating a Long Island custom-repair shop for U.S. and foreign cars.***** They got to chatting about the feasibility of an American sports car, and before long B. S. Cunningham Inc. was formed, with Phil Walters as general manager...
...MOTORS, which has climbed from a deficit of $2,000,000 to a profit of $2,000,000 in four years, making trucks and power lawn-mowers, has been sold to Henney Motor Co. Inc. of Freeport, Ill., makers of custom-body hearses and ambulances. The sale, still to be approved by stockholders, is a straight cash transaction for $16.5 million, equal to nearly $30 a share for Reo stock. Henney will take over Reo's plants and distributors...
Since then, Albert has been able to sell everything he paints. The example of his fat income-which under tribal custom he must share not only with his wife and six children but with hordes of other rela- tives-caused a whole colony of aboriginal artists to spring up at Hermannsburg. Today Hermannsburg has 18 painters (including three of Namatjira's. sons), who collectively gross nearly $8,000 a year. Some of Namatjira's followers, many critics think, are doing better work than the master, whom they regard as too slick. One of the best is Edwin Pareroultja...
...custom in Iranian elections, it was all pretty much a fraud. The twelve lucky winners had been decided before the first voter dropped his scrap of paper into the metal box. All were supporters of Premier Fazlollah Zahedi's government. The voters, with cynicism born of experience, knew what to expect. One Teheran elector dropped his ballot in the box, then salaamed deeply three times to the container. Asked why, he retorted: "This box is magic. One drops in a ballot for Mohammed and lo, when the box is opened, it becomes a vote for Fazlollah...
...took for granted that his own filial piety would be duplicated in his children. Samuel's mother was also typical of her class and times, i.e., everything a mother of the 19503 tries not to be. It was mother Butler's custom to treat little Sam to "sofa talks"-long, cozy, heart-to-heart, during which he was made to "feel guilty for not being sufficiently grateful for all his parents had done for him." It was also mother Butler's habit to extract confidences from Sam and then pass them on to her formidable husband...