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...caps and sweaters naturally produced only caps: they were smaller and thus cheaper and quicker to make. A factory commanded to make lamp shades made them all orange, since sticking to one color kept the assembly line uncomplicated. Tire production one year was fixed without checking the plan for motor-vehicle output. Taxi drivers were put on a bonus system based on mileage, and soon the Moscow suburbs were full of empty taxis barreling down the boulevards to fatten their bonuses...
...transceiver radios, similar to those used by radio-dispatched taxis, have a range of about 20 miles in the country, cost about $75. Thus equipped, the motor association pointed out, the beleaguered motorist would have only to "pull over, roll up the windows, lock the doors, and start talking." He would not even have to cry HELP! for that is what the program would be called. Short, of course, for Highway Emergency Locating Plan...
...field shouting and yelling; after dinner the pep rally left everyone a bit uncertain. It seemed almost unplanned. Yovicsin told the student body the game depended on them, since the team was ready. O'Brien introduced the team, one by one. Then we drove off to the Framingham Motor Inn to spend the night (late parietals and noisy parties the night before the Yale game make both the team and the coaches anxious for our sleep. So the team moves to a $20-a-night motel...
...Kiekhaefer's compact 60-h.p. "in-board-outboard," the smallest unit on the market for 14-ft. to 18-ft. boats. Modified from a Renault automobile engine, the transom-mounted motor is as easy to install and operate as an outboard but leaves more room than an inboard, facilitates land transportation (because unlike straight inboards only the easily liftable outboard section hangs below the hull...
...Lonrho's restless expansion is Roland ("Tiny") Rowland, 46, a 180-lb. six-footer who began his career as a porter in a London railway station, emigrated to Southern Rhodesia in 1948 and built a fortune from a Mercedes franchise and mineral speculation. In 1961 he traded his motor and mining assets for 30% of the stock of Lonrho, became a joint managing director with Chairman Alan Ball. Ever since, he has been flying around Africa in a twin-engine Beechcraft, persuading the established and emerging nations to do business with Lonrho, acquiring such diverse enterprises as the daily...