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...Petersen's empire. He began when the first issue sold out all 10,000 copies at hot-rod rallies and drag strips 18 years ago, and today the magazine is still the most profitable entry in a bulging portfolio that boasts ten magazines and numerous other enterprises. His book division's products vary from the California Angels Yearbook (50?) to the handsomely bound Mr. Rifleman ($12.50), and last month he announced plans to publish automotive and hobby paperbacks with the New American Library. His film production company has an hour color special, "The Wonderful World of Wheels," scheduled...
...Dissent. Koningsberger found the people looking well fed and clothed. Shops seemed well stocked; there was no "atmosphere of scarcity," despite contradictory evidence of rationed rice and cloth. No "blue ants slaving away" -except for the familiar "drag coolies" hauling inhuman loads of coal and pig iron. No beggars anywhere, no flies even on manure heaps. The countryside appeared to be the immemorial land of the peasant-few motor highways, trucks or tractors but plenty of human feet treadling water wheels. Soldiers with guns nowhere to be seen. In short, "the daily comings and goings of the people look terribly...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The Spring National Drag Racing Championships in Bristol, Tenn., and the World Invitational High Diving Championship in Las Vegas...
Playing It Cool. Sukarno, in fact, was being overruled on all sides. Day by day, Indonesia's tough little Army General Suharto was picking up the threads of government and weaving them into a noose that could eventually drag Sukarno into retirement or exile-once Suharto consolidates his strength...
...still one of filmdom's sprightliest actors. But not sprightly enough, perhaps, to carry off a role that requires him almost simultaneously to be like Harold Lloyd on a high wire, Buster Keaton pratfalling in a Chinese opera, and Humphrey Bogart doing a striptease in drag...