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...normally enough. "I cranked and the engine started," recalled George last week with a touch of awe. "We sped down Broadway to Times Square and into the biggest crowd of people I ever saw." Exactly 41 days, eight hours and 15 minutes later, Schuster's 60-h.p. Thomas Flyer arrived in San Francisco, thus ending the easiest part of the trip. Five foreign cars-from a French De Dion to an Italian Zust-trailed far behind. Boarding a freighter, Schuster headed to Japan, crossed to Vladivostok, then set out on the long trek across Siberia. Where there were...
Though the interview with the American flyer was interesting, there are other digressions which drag. Greene's interviews with North Vietnamese officials add little. Greene's would have done better to stick to his theme of the effects of the war on daily life, rather than wasting time shooting interviews with Hanoi official-dom. Other baldly ideological sequences pall, such as scenes of marching North Vietnamese soldiers (there is "no conscription" in North Vietnam, maintains Greene) striding forward to the tunes of the Liberation Hymn of South Vietnam...
...today's youngsters, who have watched manned space ships blast off on TV and may never even have ridden in a train, the tracks are losing thier magic. Lionel, which has absorbed A.C. Gilbert's American Flyer this year stopped stopped making trains and is selling off its inventory. Sears Roebuck's current Christmas catalogue devotes tow pages to model trains-but it takes nine pages to describe slot-car racing sets, which provide an element of competition that the trains never had, and have replaced them as the Christmas present that boys want most...
...garage across the street. Next, in 1963, he sold their Manhattan apartment, took to commuting from his I l l-acre Long Island estate. Meanwhile, his plunges into Latin American airlines had come a cropper. He lost one airline when the Mexican government nationalized it. Even worse was his flyer with Aerovias Panama, a scheduled passenger and freight airline that went bankrupt two years ago, leaving him sole guarantor for bills totaling $499,765.43 owed to a Miami airplane-leasing company...
...distending some part of his digestive tract. If he chews a few antacid tablets, he most likely will do himself no good, but neither will he do any harm. To guard against recurrences, he should avoid eating pulse vegetables such as navy or lima beans (as every high-altitude flyer and astronaut knows) and roughage foods such as cabbage, Brussels sprouts and celery. These two classes of foods, by different biochemical mechanisms, promote the formation of gas in the digestive tract...