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...paddles of the freezer in their wholesale plant turn slowly enough. At their ice-cream parlor, a rowdily redecorated former gas station, an elderly White Mountain Freezer Co. rock-salt-and-ice contraption chunks away serenely in a position of honor. It is powered by a senile electric motor but otherwise, wooden tub and all, it is a 5-gal. enlargement of the traditional hand-turned ecstasy machine. This freezer, which somewhat surprisingly produces enough ice cream for the 1,600 customers who crowd in on a good day, does its magic under the attentive view of the area...
...have to screw around erasing and crossing out, finding a clear place in the forest to drop the next hat. If I'd had it in 1964, I'd have written three more books by now." Chicago Author William Brashler (The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars and Motor Kings), 33, switched on when his exhausted electric portable began throwing keys across the room. Says Brashler of his $8,400 IBM Displaywriter: "It takes the drudgery out of writing. I correct a mistake on the screen in a second, and the printer retypes the page in three seconds...
Should Charles and Diana feel the urge to strike out on their own for a short spin, Britannia carries her own miniflotilla. Included are a 40-ft. barge, two 35-ft. speedboats, a motor cutter, two 16-ft. fast-motor dinghies, two 14-ft. sailing dinghies and a number of lifeboats-one big enough to carry a Land Rover. The yacht's sun deck can double as a landing pad for helicopters and her hold can carry two Rolls-Royces...
...agreement with a handshake and retired to Bailey's office for a round of Scotch and bourbon. Du Pont was paying some $7 billion in cash and stock for Conoco. The union could form the seventh largest industrial enterprise in the U.S., ranking just behind the Ford Motor...
...reporting that his latest film, Night Wind, has set a new record for low grosses and bad reviews, is trying to kill himself. He doesn't even notice when his wife Sally (Julie Andrews), the star of his disaster, leaves with both kids and most of the family motor pool. Down to his last Cadillac, his suicide attempts going unnoticed at the orgy his pals are staging to take their minds off his misfortunes, he is a sad spectacle...