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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vine diesel turned out by Cummins Engine. Co. of Columbus, Ind. Built on a new (for diesels) over-square* design, the Vine is as much as 44% smaller and lighter than other comparable diesels. As a result, it will not only give truckers more miles to the gallon, but will also allow them to carry up to 10% extra payload without violating state weight and length limits...
Collectively a sort of ten-gallon straw hat, the huge productions use as many as three separate stages, demand actors by the horde. Some are professionals, but most are local amateurs and college students whose unpredictability can add suspense to the re-creation of the past. At one amphitheater, the general manager once discovered minutes before curtain time that a corps of miffed undergraduates, dressed in red coats and demoralized by nightly defeat, were planning to win the Battle of Yorktown. Only a threat that they would not be paid persuaded them to take the usual dive...
...Disneyland and Freedomland, could Texas be far behind? Yup. as a matter of fact. But now, on a 35-acre site halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, a ten-gallon version of the modern, thematic amusement park has just opened to the public. The theme, of course, is TEXAS, mister, hubris spelled out in smoke signals; and the name of the place was originally Texas Under Six Flags. But that just would not do. "Texas," someone pointed out, "is under nothin'." So, as thousands of children and adults turned up to see what the new $10 million park...
...Tubeiq in the Jordanian desert, Sam Spiegel's Lawrence of Arabia company (with Peter O'Toole as Lawrence, Alec Guinness as Feisal) set up its camp under towering red dunes, 150 miles from the nearest oasis. Kerosene trucks brought water at a cost of about $3 a gallon, and Spiegel nearly turned into a pillar of salt when he learned that truck drivers were stopping en route to take showers. Then a couple of hundred Bedouins showed up one night, circled the camp, rattled their pots and pans and cried: "We are your guests...
...Bird Dogs. The Murchisons' victory on Allan Kirby's home grounds was dramatic notice of the changing role of Texas in the U.S. economy. Easterners still like to think of Texans as illiterate oil millionaires who wear ten-gallon hats-and, when they are in Wall Street looking for money, some Texans shrewdly play the expected part. Says Dallas Millionaire Trammell Crow: "I know I can get in to see people in New York more easily because it says I'm from Texas on my business card. They want to see what a Texan looks like...