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Paul Peoples, who was eleven when his family drove in from Arkansas in a 1929 Overland Whippet, picked cotton, waited anxiously with his mother and three brothers each Saturday to learn if his father had made enough money for groceries. Today Peoples, 32, is a graduate of Fresno State College, works on his master's degree, and is Fresno's deputy probation officer. "There were two kinds of people then," he recalls. "Those who had never had a desire to improve themselves -and those who were looking for some way to better their lot. My father-he didn...
...Feathers Scott and Old Rough-and-Ready Taylor shoved Mexico back across the Rio Grande, Captain King and his partner, Mifflin Kenedy, made themselves a big stake by transporting cargo upriver by boat as far as skilled captains and sound bottoms could navigate. In 1852 King made an overland trip from Brownsville to Corpus Christi, was fascinated by the lush grass where the Wild Horse Desert grew green along the brush-lined bends of Santa Gertrudis Creek. Soon afterwards, he deserted the river for ranching. By the time the Civil War broke out, Rancher King was spreading his holdings steadily...
...Communist dictatorship. On the inevitable night in 1949 when Tito's secret police came after him, Carmelo and his younger brother Emil fled to Trieste, only a thump ahead of the knock at the door. From their haven just across the border, Carmelo and Emil set up an overland express, guiding Yugoslavs to freedom. Before the year was out, Tito's agents had jailed Carmelo's mother and sister back home, and shot Emil dead in Italian territory. Three times they tried to kill Carmelo in the streets of Trieste, and failed...
Napoleon's occupation forces. The cannon, a beautiful three-ton jewel of muzzle-loading artillery, falls into the hands of an illiterate guerrilla chieftain (Frank Sinatra) after being abandoned by Spain's routed army regulars. Sharing his ordeal of moving the gun overland, through French-commanded passes and along sen-tried back roads, is a weird ally, a spick-and-span British navy gunnery expert (Gary Grant), who, believing that war is a gentleman's affair, is appalled by the barbaric tactics of Sinatra's uncouth band. Italy's Sophia Loren, as a busty errand...
...salvage one gain from their spoilsless victory. They have sent two frigates to patrol the Gulf of Aqaba and have placed four chartered merchant vessels in service between Elath and East African ports. Turning even the Suez blockage to advantage, the enterprising Israelis are already offering all comers overland transport by truck and rail to the Mediterranean. This week some 500 tons of Ethiopian hides and coffee are scheduled to be transshipped to Europe over this route, which, while costlier than the Suez passage, can compete with transport around the Cape of Good Hope...