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Only 35 to Baker's 61, L.B. (for Lewis Bergman) Maytag Jr. is a lean, even-tempered member of the washing-machine clan. But except for sizable stock holdings, Colorado-raised Bud Maytag long ago spun off all interest in the family firm (now run by his cousin...
Endicott "Chub" Peabody '42 is the man's candidate for governor. Average, decent voters of Massachusetts are fed up with the problem subscription," he said recently. "They lean, decent candidates for office levels...
Continuing this heartening trend of lean prose and effective dialogue, Anne Lindbergh focuses on incest in her short sketch about a brother and sister parting at an air terminal. September is a modest attempt that leaves one hoping for something more ambitious from Miss Lindbergh in the future...
...military roads are being laid through the slopes to ease the problem of supply; bulldozers are shaving away hillsides to straighten out the hairpin turns in old roads. Most of the mountain roads, however, are still little better than mountain-goat paths on which, says one survivor, "you lean to the inside, put your hand out toward space, and don't look...
...makes the same trip at 5 m.p.h. The touted freeways designed to aid entrance to and exit from the city are already outgrown, will reach their peak in 1968-eleven years before the entire 1049-mile system will be completed. Most cities have seen their commuter lines dwindle, and lean heavily on inadequate transit systems. Says Boston's Mayor Collins: "If we were to adapt an urban civilization to everybody who's lazy enough to get out of the house right into his car, drive to the office and want to park near it, you'd have...