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...Hardeman, Texas A & I, 6 ft. 1 in., 230 Ibs. A former defensive end and linebacker who rushed for an average of 123 yds. per game this year as an A&I fullback...
...called that because a 91-year-old automotive pioneer named Loren Hardeman sees his great-granddaughter Betsy swimming naked one day, and this makes him think about cars, and he decides to come out of retirement, wrench control of his company from his stodgy grandson Loren 111, and build a splendid new automobile to be called the Betsy. Cynics may mutter at this point that Robbins is the only North American still extant who confuses girls with sedans. But no! Hailey's novel also jubilates over the introduction of a new auto. It may explain something to point...
Anyway, old Hardeman hires a burnt-out race-car driver named Angelo Pe-rino to get the Betsy into production. It does not seem more than usually absurd that in due course Loren III becomes furious and hires crooks to sabotage his own firm. There is a lot of sex, much of it involving a lady test driver who combusts spontaneously whenever she hears the roar of an engine...
Neatest reach for historical verisimilitude: Robbins, who in a flashback has Hardeman telephone Walter Reuther in 1937 to warn him that the Battle of the Overpass (in which auto company goons beat up unsuspecting union organizers) is about to occur. · John Skow
...sent to an eager house-a bill allowing candidates to file for both statewide office and the U.S. presidency or vice-presidency on the ballot for this summer's Texas primaries. The bill mentioned no names, applied to any candidate. But, explained San Angelo's Dorsey Hardeman, author of the measure: "This might be referred to as the Lyndon Johnson-for-President bill...