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Before the workers moved in, the Stand ard Fruit Co. (which used the previous grass airstrip as a duster-plane base) and a helicopter company were each abruptly given eight hours to clear out. Stand ard Fruit's small hangar was taken over by the government - also for cash...
...always so. In the duster-and-goggle days of 50 years ago, Argentines by the thousands lurched happily over unpaved cowpaths in Renaults, Packards, and Benzes. In the '20s, Model T Fords were assembled in Argentina, and in 1938, Buenos Aires, Latin America's most motorized city, held its "First International Auto Salon," featuring 60 of the latest models from around the world. Then came World War II, followed by Peron, protectionism and austerity. Argentina was gradually transformed into a land of jalopies, museum pieces and three-wheeled bubble buggies...
...analyst, and wife of the Actors' Studio's Lee Strasberg, Paula stayed close to her ward, nib bled away at a large palmetto fan, sent notes around the set on postcards that pictured an ax and a chopping block. Wearing a black babushka, black glasses, black duster and carrying a black bag that seemed to contain everything from tranquilizers to a bunch of half-dead roses, she tossed lavish bouquets at her pupil ("Boom. It's like electricity") and steadily quoted her husband's theatrical dicta...
There was tall, lithe Miro Slovak, a onetime pilot for the Red-run Czechoslovakian Airlines, who hit the headlines in 1953 when he commandeered a C-47 and flew to asylum in West Germany. Between races, Slovak is now a crop duster. And there was Bill Muncey, 30, onetime professional hockey player. In 1955 Muncey was so infuriated when officials gave the Gold Cup race to Detroit's Gale V, after he had apparently won it for Seattle in Miss Thriftway, that he moved forthwith to Seattle. He won the Gold Cup for Seattle in both...
...light aircraft industry." His name: Dwane L. (for Leon) Wallace, 47, president of Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co. A skillful management pilot with a frame (6 ft. 2½ in., 160 Ibs.) as spare as a wing spar and a face as weatherbeaten as a crop-duster's, Dwane Wallace was celebrating his 25th year with Cessna. There was a great deal to celebrate...