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...that "being a woman would make a difference [in her career], because I'd always done everything I wanted." Her father Glen was a lawyer and businessman in Kokomo, Ind.; her mother Bernice, an amateur musician. The most illustrious member of the family was Bernice's father, Elwood Haynes, who designed one of the first successful automobiles and discovered stainless steel...
...They charge an arm and a leg," complains Walter Bates, owner of a well-service firm in Odessa, Texas. "But I'm happy to pay any price to get the equipment I need." Sometimes, the equipment is not only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything in the oil patch that isn't tied down." Hill adds that an experienced team of oilfield thieves can dismantle and cart off $20,000 worth of gear within two hours...
...kook in American drama is rather like that of the circus freak. He or she represents nature gone awry, a creature of bizarre habits, obsessive appetites, crazy compulsions. The kook has no claim on our common humanity unless he can be made endearing in some way as, for example, Elwood P. Dowd was through his affection for his invisible companion, the 6-ft. rabbit, Harvey...
...Sloan's Law. Chrysler Corp. is promoting style changes in such full-sized models as the Plymouth Fury, Dodge Polara and Monaco, and Chrysler Newport, New Yorker and Imperial. Newly sculpted body and roof lines, and new front and rear styling will be the big difference. Says Elwood P. Engel, Chrysler's vice president of styling: "Buying a car is like buying a suit. Nobody wants one with narrow lapels. People who buy Valiants and Darts may buy a car just for transportation, but a person who spends $4,000 to $5,000 for a car wants...
Neither agency will bow to the other's choice for the sake of having a single symbol. Meantime, a Ford Motor Co. designer named Elwood Engel argues for eliminating both Johnny and Woodsy. His proposed substitute: Ollie and Polly, "the oxygen molecules with the message...