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...abdo men (they were removed at week's end), it was a painful maneuver, but Johnson managed to hoist himself behind the steering wheel and blithely drove away. After a turn through Johnson City, a quick circle around his boyhood home, and a short spin down an old gravel road, the President hit the main highway and drove the ten miles back to the ranch...
Whatever it is, Elvis isn't having any. He prefers dogs to girls and cars to both. At the fade he is keeping company with a '29 Duesenberg. "I'll really travel," the feller bellers, "and hit the gravel. But I'll be back." Forewarned is forearmed...
...Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate George P. Mahoney, 64, whipped off a shoe and brandished it triumphantly. Showing off a hole the size of a quarter, Mahoney bragged of his 17 years "walking up and down" the state campaigning. In fact, despite six previous tries for statewide office, Mahoney, a millionaire gravel and paving contractor, has never before been considered a serious candidate. The difference this year is that he latched onto the single controversial issue of open housing, to which he is fervently opposed. With his sound trucks blaring "Your home is your castle" to the tune of The Bells...
...many as 40 trucks a day use the gravel-topped Sihanouk Trail. The trail bristles with 12.7-mm. antiaircraft emplacements, and other sources say that there are at least 30 Viet Cong supply depots strung along its length. A dozen North Vietnamese regiments are currently poised for action in South Viet Nam, and of these, at least four are inside Cambodia. Half of the remaining eight are within easy marching distance of the Cambodian sanctuary and the supply lines of the Sihanouk Trail. Its strategic value to the Communists is as an alternate route to the Ho Chi Minh Trail...
...most rewarding work came in October and November when we had a chance to pour concrete. We shoveled sand and gravel and concrete into metal bowls which students carried on their heads and threw into the cement mixer. Others picked up wheelbarrows full of cement, raced down narrow boardways and dumped them into the stone bed of the foundation. It was hard work and the sun was getting hotter, but when the day was over we could see the floor of the building that we had made...