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...last week into La Paz for a homemade-auto derby promoted by Bolivia's leading newspaper, La Razon. Some 10,000 spectators lined a twomile, zigzagging, up & downhill race course. Among 250 drivers was one seven-year-old who came equipped with a white smock and first-aid kit; he listed his car as an ambulance, won the right to enter it. The Catavi tin-mining region sent six entrants whose expenses had been paid by subscription. One boy, asked whether he had brakes on his car, replied: "How can I win if I have brakes?" "Then...
...movie about a cloakmaker, the International Ladies' Garment Workers' bouncy David Dubinsky described the fictional hero: "This cloakmaker built our country no less than the people who made the railroads and the people who pioneered through the wilderness ... So our hero's name isn't Kit Carson or Daniel Boone ... So his name is Alexander Brody, and he likes to play pinochle...
Cage & Chickadee. The chemist is kidnaped by Russian agents even before the big food companies steal his Nutro formula, and turn it to a fast buck with Piksnak ("why bother with that old-fashioned picnic lunch-basket") and Sportnutrine ("attached to the belt . . . in a handy metal kit") and Quik-Meal ("the two-second lunch for America's busiest executives...
Half-colours were awarded to the following regular players on the first and second fifteen's: Thorpe Kelly, Audy Ecklund, Hollis Hunnewell, Doug Purdy, Pierre Lelandais, John Harley, Gerry Dekoch, Al Green, Bill Miller, Ken Kunhardt, Charley Whiting, Jose Soriano, Kit Kiang, Jay Lyons, Dwight Nishimura, Bill Swan, George Whitney, Jerry Cummings, and Sturgiss Eaton...
...Rhodes scholar named Frank Harrold, who runs the entire sales promotion department of the Coca-Cola Export Corp. with the help of only two assistants, a few stenographers, and what amounts to a commuter's ticket on all the world's airlines. Harrold has developed a green kit containing fat instruction books, slide films, records, etc. Even a man with a stammer and an inferiority complex can become a dynamic lecturer. Sample instruction for a salesmen's meeting...