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...Kustomizer Barris, a short, hefty Greek, understands the car-nut psyche: "Cars out here are like clothes, very personal. They are a form of entertainment. You might go for cigars or for guns, but this type of entertainment you can enjoy while driving, not just while you're at home. And it's a good clean form of fun, instead of pills or dope. You know, you can get high on your car." "Here," says Ben Carco, an American Motors dealer in Reseda, "your car is part of you." There are Angelenos who, like those old ladies with...
...church and school work, she believes that "women need something besides kids. There's nothing more boring than women who talk about their babies, diapers and what they fix for dinner. If I couldn't get away, I know I'd end up in the nut house." Though she is against abortion ("It's murder") and worries that some mothers use day-care centers as a substitute for child rearing, she is in sympathy with most of the aims of Women's Lib. Her one reservation is that "in order to get into the system...
...There are a lot of jokers on the team," Bertagna explained. "The coach wishes we were more serious, but he doesn't restrain us because he's kind of a nut himself," he said...
Though Loeb sees Red under many a bed, he is not always allied with the far-right fringe. He considers the John Birch Society's Robert Welch a "bloody nut," for example, and often offends fellow conservatives by supporting organized labor. Loeb pioneered in newspaper profit sharing at the Union Leader in 1949, and will leave the paper to the employees when he dies. "I don't believe in inherited wealth," he says, but admits that he leaned heavily on his family's resources to acquire his first paper, the St. Albans (Vt.) Messenger...
When the situations are easy, the laughs are there, all right: patients expiring in the emergency room while a hospital official tries to determine their Blue Cross number, some nut wandering the hospital corridors knocking off staff and patients...