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...blending jalopy jargon with nuts-and-bolts advice, Hollywood Publisher Robert Petersen has not only rolled his Hot Rod magazine to high success in nine years, but has added five other automobile monthlies (Motor Trend, Motor Life, Car Craft, Rod & Custom, Custom Cars) to his garage. At 31, Pete Petersen is the biggest magazine owner west of the Rockies, boasts the biggest circulation (total: 1,500,000) in the automotive field, and, with a book-publishing business and a nonmechanical magazine called Teen, grosses $6,500,000 a year...
...Sherman Antitrust Act by engaging in "one large, ever-growing conspiracy" to destroy the competition of long-haul trucks. He awarded only nominal damages of 18? each to 37 trucking companies, but said he would award additional damages plus attorneys' fees and court costs to the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association. He invited the truckers to draw up an injunction for the court to issue to curb the rails' anti-truck campaign. Wrote Judge Clary, in an acid 200-page decision: "There is a strong possibility that the defendants are ready, willing and able to continue their campaign...
...immune to back-alley tactics. Judge Clary noted that their public relations firm. Manhattan's Allied Public Relations Associates. Inc.. "attempted in a limited degree to use the Byoir technique of phony organizations to attack the railroads." But he added that "wiser heads" in the Pennsylvania Motor Truck Association called a halt to the program...
...Crimson Motorcycle Club issued a reply yesterday to the University's recent charges against motorcycles and motor scooter drivers. In an open letter "to those University officials. . . . concerned with motorcycle problems," the club asserted that the noise from cycles was not bothersome, but added that it is willing to make "compromises...
...Police have begun ticketing motor scooters and motorcycles that are parked illegally on University property or across sidewalks, and plan to give tickets to speeders along University-owned Divinity Avenue and near Kirkland in a campaign to curtail accidents. They are also ticketing scooters parked in the Yard...