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They cut off all communication with the outside and raided the prison arsenal. Before long, police cars and a patrol jeep rolled out of the jail, carrying escapees wearing stolen police uniforms. About the same time, the noon guard shift marched up to the prison gate. The remaining convicts greeted them with rapid bursts of gunfire...
Along with the Coca-Cola bottle, the Singer sewing machine and the Willys Jeep, the Parker pen ranks as one of the best-known symbols...
...ambitious Arab businessmen. He tripled his total staff to 500, is converting his business from handwritten, single-entry ledgers to computers, has trained a corps of crack salesmen and sent his technicians off to Beirut, England and the U.S. for training. Handling dealerships for such companies as Chrysler, Kaiser Jeep, Gulf Oil, Philco, Whirlpool and National Cash Register, Bader has ridden on Kuwait's boom. Last year his sales included 1,000 cars, 4,000 air conditioners (the Kuwait temperature goes up to 125°), three jet planes, and $600,000 worth of N.C.R. equipment. He is building...
Both in and out, it was a tough commute. A Jeep steering wheel came off. The Jeep dove into a gorge and had to be repaired with Scotch tape and fishing pliers. The governments of both Argentina and Chile, deciding that this was really a smuggling expedition, sent police along to make sure that dry flies were the only things being cast across the border...
...Little John (twelve miles), a smaller version of Honest, with a 360° firing circle and designed for maximum mobility; it can be transported by helicopter or troop-carrying aircraft, or towed by a Jeep, and is fired like an artillery shell from a tripod launcher. »An 8-in. howitzer (ten miles), a rapid-fire job that can pepper 200-lb. projectiles at a rate of 90 per hour. »Davy Crockett (1,200 yds.), the Army's smallest and top-rated front-line weapon, a light, tube-fired piece designed for use against troop masses, tank clusters...