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...Sidi Slimane's dining hall, in briefing rooms and sleeping huts, the 6-473' three-man alert crews waited, always a few minutes' jeep ride from their aircraft, always together. ("It's like being married to these guys," says one young copilot, "only worse.") As Klaxon horns blared harshly and insistently through the sun-dried air, the combat crews dropped what they were doing and piled into their jeeps. (One coveralled pilot got notice of the alert when the warning light went on over the Catholic chapel altar, where he was at prayer.) Down premarked roadways...
...Salesman Robert W. Huff, 30, charged with bilking seven Baptist churches of some $93,000 worth of building bonds, explained that he had to finance his trips to Las Vegas dice tables in order to win money to keep up payments on his new Cadillac, yacht, house trailer and jeep, told police he got the "gambling fever" after "I started pitching quarters...
...French army jeep squealed to a halt as a sullen young Arab planted himself in the middle of the casbah street and refused to budge. A French private named Geronimo leaped from the jeep, and unlimbering his Tommy gun, faced the Moslem troublemaker. From the sidelines an old Arab shuffled forward and tried to soothe his compatriot: "Go home. Come on, don't be mulish.'' Before the old Arab had finished his plea, Private Geronimo's Tommy gun stuttered in reply, and the old man "collapsed softly, muttering to himself unintelligibly while his blood flowed down...
Apocalyptic Powers. Shortly after surrender, a jeep drove up to Erhard's modest house in Fürth. A U.S. major demanded: "Are you Erhard? Please come with me." Erhard nervously embraced his wife and climbed in. At the U.S. military government office he learned that the U.S. authorities, impressed by the lack of Nazi ties in his record, had picked him for Bavarian economics minister. But Erhard, a Franconian, a Protestant and a reputed Freemason, never hit it off with his clannish Catholic Bavarian colleagues. No great shakes as administrator and organizer of hand-to-mouth subsistence measures...
...Thirds of a Jeep. Petersen concedes that his campaign may not get anywhere "for a long time." Nevertheless, his magazines wield far-reaching influence. By popularizing cars with lower lines and such avant-garde gimmicks as fuel injection systems and dual exhausts, the magazines help stimulate demand for engineering and styling refinements in assembly-line autos (which are rigorously road-tested each year by the editors). In addition, Publisher Petersen, himself an auto mechanic's son, has been a major factor in building a new, $15 million-a-year market for manufacturers of esoteric auto accessories ranging from racing...