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Cooke trekked 3,500 miles by helicopter, light plane, car and Jeep...
...trial thrilled all India. Commander Nanavati appeared in court in full beribboned uniform, and arrived and departed each day in a navy Jeep. The ecstatic press and public hailed him as ''the Gregory Peck of the Indian navy." His penitent wife, demure in a white blouse and a white sari, testified for him. The commander in chief of the navy described Nanavati in court as "honest, sober, efficient, and a man of character.'' Emotional Indian women mailed the commander 100-rupee notes ($21) as contributions toward his defense, and the bills bore the lipstick imprint...
Midgets in the Studios. In addition, the Big Three are also testing several experimental smaller-than-compact models to compete against the European imports. Ford is farthest along, already has a proven power plant in the aluminum block, four-cylinder engine that runs its Jeep-like military vehicle called the Mutt, is trying it out on a 96-in. wheelbase. But neither Ford nor G.M. nor Chrysler plans to introduce its midget cars for 1961. First, Detroit wants to see how well the current crop of compacts do against the foreign cars. So far they are doing fine...
...week the old soldier, Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 65, resigned as War Minister in order "to go into the arena with no privileges or priorities." Then the red-cheeked descendant of Dutch-English immigrants slipped into mufti in an adjoining room, walked out to a waiting Jeep, and drove off through popping firecrackers and a cheering crowd to his first political rally. The presidential race...
Yelling, imploring, they held out their hands to touch him. Nervously, Nehru leaped from the car, made his way to an escorting Jeep, shouting for the people to make way. But his voice went unheard in the thunderous clamor, and Nehru characteristically put his chin in his hand and gazed stoically ahead. Downtown, the crowds were even stormier. WELCOME PRINCE OF PEACE, read a sign in Connaught Circus. Flowers by the pound flew at Ike until he was standing foot-deep in them, and the panting Secret Service men who had already been mauled by the mobs, began fielding...