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...miles beyond Hernando, Miss., Meredith was plodding doggedly up a small hill when a white man popped up from the brush along the highway. "Ja-ames Meredith! Ja-ames Meredith!" he cried. "I only want Ja-ames Meredith!" Meredith's companions scrambled for cover, stumbling over one another. "Look out, Jim, he's got a gun!" cried one. "Hit the dirt!" called an other. Startled, Meredith hesitated. A 16-gauge shotgun roared once, and a spray of bird shot blasted into Meredith's right side. He fell to his knees and began to wriggle across the highway...
...Hamburg, if you ask for a hamburger, the man behind the counter will say, "Ich bin ein Hamburger! Everyone who lives here is a Hamburger!" And when you are in a German beer hall, don't bellow out that favorite of American rathskellers-"Ist das nicht ein Schnitzelbank? Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank"-everyone will think you're crazy, except, of course, the American tourists at the next table, who will join...
...matter how prolific he is, Antes is slow to release his paintings. Even when finished, he keeps them for six months, until finally he can turn to a spectator and pronounce "Ist ja prima, nicht?" (First class, no?). Any really serious doubts that Antes' prodigious pace might be slackening were completely dispelled by his current exhibition at Munich's Stangl Gallery. To the delight of his growing following, Antes gave some of his imps a third dimension, produced a merry lot of polychromed bronzes and ceramics-as well as paintings and drawings. "I never waste an idea...
Longtime farm-equipment makers, in cluding International Harvester, Allis Chalmers, Massey Ferguson and John Deere, have reached down into the new market. At the same time, such estab lished mower makers as Simplicity, Ja cobsen and Pennsylvania are stepping up to midget tractors. Large acreage and big income no longer seem to be requisites for sales: Harvester estimates that 70% of the buyers of its Cub Cadet own less than three acres and that half earn less than $10,000 a than year. The tractors are usually less than 4 ft. high, have 6-to 10-h.p. motors, move...
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