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Grandson Dan Fraad started in the business at the end of a mop handle, is called "Junior" by his wife and friends. His chores are not all that different from Grandfather's, though on a much grander scale. The company that started out by refilling railroad kerosene lamps now pumps three million gallons of fuel per day into jet planes at major commercial airports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Services: The Cleaner Cleans Up | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

...yeah, yeah" from the fiddle section, as that master Fiedler, Arthur, 69, leads the proper Boston Pops in a bouncy, 90-man rendition of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, the orchestra's sleeper hit of the season. How does the top pop get in the mood for the mop-top hop? It's very simple. He puts on his thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 12, 1964 | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...decision to Kent Nelson for the Crimson's only other defeat. Clive Kileff at number three, Chum Steele, number four, and Bob Inman, number six, turned in quick straight-set victories. Inman, playing in his last match, turned in the day's quickest win, a 6-2, 6-1 mop-up job over Bob Dunlop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Tennis Squad Trounces Yale, 7-2; 16th Win Marks End of Successful Season | 5/14/1964 | See Source »

Each year, Italy's Automaestro Enzo Ferrari brings his high-whining, finely tuned racing instruments to Florida for the Sebring Twelve Hour Endurance Race. Each year, with splendid monotony, they mop up everything but the oil on the track. When onetime Racing Driver Carroll Shelby decided in 1961 to challenge the master with a cannibalized machine of his own devising - a brutish Ford engine* jammed into a bulging A.C. Bristol body - the Monster of Maranello smiled a fine Italian smile. Last year on this concrete and blacktop track, three of the six Shelby Cobras entered broke down; highest Cobra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Beware the Blue Cabra | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...Kennedy International Airport, and the whole place went up for grabs. Some 2,000 hooky-playing, caterwauling teen-agers stomped, whistled, screamed, sang or just plain fainted while the plane slowly disgorged 105 passengers, eleven crew members and four British Beetles. Oops, Beatles. On their first U.S. tour, the mop-topped, top pop waiters, John Lennon, 23, George Harrison, 21, Paul McCartney, 21, and Ringo Starr, 23, grinned amiably at the whole mad display. What was their secret? "A good pressagent," chirped Ringo. (They have 17.) And how about the Detroit movement to stamp out Beatles? "Oh, we have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 14, 1964 | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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