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...descended and tethered the team, and his spirit mollified by the rebuke administered and laved with the beatitude of having gained his own way, Simon paused and examined the motor car with curiosity and no little superciliousness tinged faintly with envious awe, and spoke affably with its conductor...

Author: By Greg Lawless, | Title: Old South Bites the Dust | 8/21/1973 | See Source »

...Home" bumper stickers. Pro-industry coloring books, buttons and pamphlets appear in grocery stores and churches. "Our only mistake," admits Dave Murdey, 52, vice president of Ketchikan Pulp Company, "was not starting our propaganda war sooner. There's a place for Sierra Club-hell, we used to pour motor oil into the water every time we cleaned a boat's engine. We need rules, but we also need responsibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Anger in Alaska | 8/20/1973 | See Source »

...reports. Finally, the tail section keeled down, and half an hour after touchdown, three big explosions, like distant summer thunder, sent up a mushroom pall of black smoke as debris and sparks sprayed an area a kilometer across. All that remained this morning was the tail assembly and a motor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Flight to Nowhere | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

...Ford Motor Company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bull Market for M.B.A.s | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

After the war, he helped manufacture an automobile that bore his name, the Rickenbacker; but the company failed in 1927, leaving him $250,000 in debt. He paid his bills and bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he continued to run until 1945. His press parties at Indianapolis on the eve of each Memorial Day 500 were notorious; liquor flowed until dawn, and Captain Eddie-as he liked to be known -customarily called for order by hammering the table with a baseball...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Eddie Rickenbacker, 1890-1973 | 8/6/1973 | See Source »

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