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...your description of Governor Jerry Brown in Des Moines looking like a Princeton undergraduate [Jan. 21]: send me a check to cover the cost of the three-piece suit and the muffler, and I will gladly conform to your archetype of a Princeton undergraduate...
Dressed in a meticulously tailored three-piece suit with a muffler tossed around his neck as though he were a Princeton undergraduate, Brown presented himself as an alternative to discontented voters. He said that if people do not want to vote for him, they should at least stay uncommitted. Though he has little organization in Iowa, he is supported by some political zealots, and they tend to go to caucuses. Local politicians estimate that Brown might pick up from 5% to 10% of the vote...
Hiking into the park on a hard-packed, snow-covered road, Yates expected to hear a snowmobile before he saw one. That would give him time to duck into the brush and escape notice. The ranger who spotted him, though, was riding on a snowmobile with a muffler. The ranger caught Yates trying to disappear into the woods. Although Yates offered the alibi that he was heading for the nearby Appalachian Trail and not Katahdin, and though he was not yet within the park bounds and there was little the ranger could do, the ranger's suspicions were aroused. Likewise...
World War I gave him his chance, and he distinguished himself as second-in-command of the famous Rainbow Division. He had already begun to disregard dress regulations. He walked through the trenches in riding breeches, a turtleneck sweater, and a 4-ft.-long muffler knitted by his mother. The doughboys, unlike the G.I.s a generation later, adored him and called him "the fighting dude...
...chief executive, a former Purdue University football star, began an aggressive program of international expansion. When he assumed command, Midas' only operation outside the U.S. consisted of a handful of muffler outlets in Canada. Now Midas has shops in eight foreign countries, and Weiger expects up to 25% of its muffler outlets to be overseas by 1985. In order to service the increasing number of foreign cars coming to the U.S., Weiger plunked down $2.5 million for a new, more efficient plant outside Chicago. There, original mufflers and tail pipes from American and foreign cars are redesigned by Midas...