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...fault the bureau for being profligate when it comes to its own staff. Budget Director Schultze, a former University of Maryland economist, has as his official limousine a 1963 Pontiac that the Internal Revenue Service seized from a Southern bootlegger; it still has a bullet hole in a rear hubcap. The bureau is so economically staffed that it has only 50 men working on the Defense Department's $60 billion budget-or more than $1 billion for each man to handle...
Today they take on Yale in Phillips Brooks House at 10 a.m. The Yale Daily News will represent the college to the south in its attempt to dislodge the John Harvard Challenge Cup--a hubcap--from the Cantabridgians...
...concrete monument to a taxi driver who was tortured and shot by Batista soldiers; the burned hulk of a bus, rusting and grown over with weeds; bullet holes in the roadside huts; the twisted girders of dynamited bridges, and the shaky timbers of temporary spans, where the water rushes hubcap-high. The road signs are newly painted black and red-the rebel colors...
...when the stockholders brought Black in to save it. Black's first accomplishment was to bring out, in 1937, the first light, fast truck motor that gave the truck industry the kind of power needed for modern, swift intercity traffic. White again turned the industry on its hubcap by tucking the truck motor under the cab seat. This cut 1 ft. off the cab length, substantially increasing the loading space. To answer the industry's need for an easily serviced engine, White made cabs that would tilt forward, exposing the whole engine at workbench height...
...Plastic Hubcaps. A plastic hubcap that will not rust or dent was put on sale by Colorado Fiberglass Corp. Made to fit any 14-or 15-in. wheel, the hubcaps come in 20 two-tone color combinations, do not show scratches because the color runs all the way through. Cost: about the same as chrome hubcaps...