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...time the cars reached Brisbane, the first seven places were held by sturdy little Volkswagens. Well up in the running, though, was Mrs. Doris Isabel ("Geordie") Anderson, 46, a Brisbane housewife and mother of six, who was driving her own brand-new, cream and grey Mark VIII Jaguar-a $6,750 job complete with automatic transmission...
...Things happen miraculously to people in this day and age. I don't have anything to hide." Stationed at Boiling Air Force Base at Washington. D.C.. where he is undergoing tests in preparation for an instructorship in survival for airmen, Steeves waved emptily at the brandnew grey Jaguar he bought shortly before his famed adventure. "Look. I've lost everything in the world-my wife. What have I got with all this publicity? I've got a nice car. I'm lonesome as hell...
...disintegration, almost nothing would be known about the Olmecs if it had not been for their curious custom of carving in jade and hard stone and burying the carvings. To judge by their figurines, they bound their babies' heads to make them abnormally highbrowed. They probably worshiped a jaguar god, or at least they carved fierce stone images of beasts half man, half jaguar. They also carved monstrous human heads nine feet high with petulant baby faces. They floored their ceremonial rooms with clay tinted red with cinnabar, and they made concave mirrors of beautifully polished stone, perhaps...
...Jaguars were privately entered, but there was a big contingent of factory mechanics on hand to give expert aid and comfort to the cars. The experts had remarkably little work to do. Once they got the lead, the Jags held it to the finish. The Scottish stable (Ecurie Ecossaise) that won last year took first and second; one of last year's winning drivers, Ron Flockhart, was in the front runner, and his co-driver of last year, Ninian Sanderson, rode in the runner-up. A pair of French drivers took third; two Belgians were fourth. The fifth Jaguar...
...about for further life insurance, landed in Pax-officially called the Social Radical Movement of Polish Catholics. The organization had the monopoly on religious publishing, plus the manufacture and sale of all religious articles. The resulting flow of cash provided Piasecki with a luxurious villa, where he kept a Jaguar and plenty of caviar and cognac to drive the blues away. Piasecki did his best to sell the Stalinist brand of anti-Catholic Catholicism. But most of the laity and all of the hierarchy stood firm. Today Pax still controls much of its commercial empire and is still in charge...