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"It never bothered Harry that the Southern people did not yet understand the worth of what he was trying to do for them. He was one of the band of native news writers who had both sense and guts, and who devoted their lives to the hard business of drawing...
Chief Reddin ranks his priorities as "crime in the streets," community relations and better recruitment. He aims to walk a "terrible tightrope" between "hard-nosed" policing and understanding. He thinks science and systematization should take over routine jobs, leaving "more time to talk to people." Minority groups are only some...
The first version was created in the Stout Metal Airplane Co. (which Ford partly owned) by mongrelizing a single-engined plane, the "Stout Air Pullman." Only one of these bulbous-nosed trimotors was made flyable, and it was flown only once. Immediately after its hair-raising test flight, the pilot...
Graced with the same snub-nosed design that has characterized the basic bug since 1948, the new 1200 is as much a throwback as an evolution. It has the same chrome trim and many, though not all, of the improvements built into the current 1300 and 1500 models, such as...
Up to now, the jouncy, snub-nosed Jeep has been just plugging along. Developed by the old Willys-Overland Corp. for the U.S. War Department in 1940, the general purpose (hence, G.P. and finally Jeep) vehicle endeared itself to G.I.s and Army brass during World War II. "America's...