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...boys spend a few weeks "getting to know the environment." Getting to know Lapa, a tiny fishing village with no industry, no movies, no newspapers, and 60 per cent illiteracy, was roughly a two-day project. After that the volunteers began to get desperate. They borrowed a CVSF Jeep and went to examine a nearby hill. "It was sort of a joke," reported Onstad. "Even if we found something out, no one here in interested...
Fifteen rabbits made it safely on a 500-mile Jeep trip from Rio to Barra, Bahia, with two corpsmen last month. The volunteers will do some demonstration rabbit-raising, hoping to move on to rabbit cooperative from there. A Peace Corps couple a Anglical, Bahia have a veritable "two-year plan": illiteracy programs, ceramics industry, youth clubs, a library, a vegetable garden, a health education class, model furniture, privies, water filters, and small dams. The couple, and most of the "new wave," call themselves "community developers...
...company Convair. Behind his desk, on which sits a dime-store statuette of a hula dancer, Garrett's $99,000-a-year boss is a smooth delegator of authority, a stickler for punctuality. At home in Bel Air, he collects shotguns and rifles, which he uses on Jeep trips across the California countryside in search of game birds...
Died. Karl Knight Probst, 79, freelance consulting engineer who reportedly got $200 (his standard weekly fee) for turning out the boxy design for the bone-rattling, indestructible Jeep in seven days in 1940 after he was asked to build a sturdier vehicle than Germany's war-adapted Volkswagen; after a long illness; in Dayton...
...Picture Window; The Insolent Chariots), might seem an improbable chronicler of this episode in wartime bravery. For many readers, his superslick style and self-confessed "literary license" ("Dona Carmen looked up at Fertig, the candlelight glinting in her dark hair") is about as fitting as chrome brightwork on a Jeep. Nonetheless, working with official records and with Fertig himself, who lives today in Colorado, Author Keats has produced a compelling and rewarding tale of endurance and character...