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...once been a bus until Mrs. Ellen Harris, G.O.P. candidate for Congress in Colorado's First District, gave it the jawbreaking name of "Congrelephant," and made it over. From the front hung an elephant's trunk spouting smoke. It had a tail and four-foot ears, and big blue eyes were painted on the windshield. To the housewives of Ivanhoe Street, the Congrelephant was not nearly so exciting as a simple black Chrysler limousine that pulled up 15 minutes later. The limousine brought Mamie Doud Eisenhower to do some politicking for her friend Ellen Harris...
...pair of half-forgotten cameras that were popular in grandfather's time: a boxlike "panoramic camera" with a swiveling lens, and a "circuit camera" turned full circle by a small, spring-driven motor. Years ago itinerant cameramen used these wooden "buzz-boxes,'' turning out four-foot films of school graduations and political clambakes. Today Photographer Strock finds new use for the oldtime cameras by fitting them with modern color film, to capture the charging players and the roaring crowds in a single sweep...
...three companies that combine St. Maurice operations is tough, Norway-born Steinar Jenssen, 62. The wood drifts into his bailiwick at the town of La Tuque. Aided by ingenious, mechanical sorting gaps, Jenssen's men will drop it off at the proper owners' mills-yellow-daubed four-foot logs for Brown Corp., swastika-stamped four-footers for Consolidated Paper, twelve-footers for Canadian International Paper...
This shooting is the only violence that occurs in Tales of the City ("And that's a domestic thing between husband and wife, so you can't count it"). Violence, Hecht feels, is overdone on TV because "the only action you can have in a four-foot radius is killing or hitting. It is possible to kill a man from one inch-therefore TV loves...
...whom Mahan, in heartfelt admiration, could only call "a man of adamant." In these pages, King is exposed as a man of obsidian, consciously modeling himself on Jervis. He was flattered when friends said he was so tough that he must shave with a blowtorch, and gave him a four-foot crowbar to use as a toothpick...