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...ride to the railroad station. Bianchi's new "World Champion" has ten gears operated by a hand shift, weighs only 23 lbs. (v. an average 47 lbs. for standard U.S. bikes) and has hit 60 m.p.h. ridden by Italian bike-racing Champion Fausto Coppi. Ordinary pedal pushers, says Bianchi, can do 50 m.p.h. without trouble. Price in Italy: $75. Price in U.S.: about...
Foot on the Pedal. Working seven days a week, against local skepticism so profound that for a long while grocers refused credit to his own family, Frank Rackley slowly amassed community support that helped swing a $1,000,000 Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan in 1950. With the loan for working capital, Rackley was in business. He became one of the youngest steel presidents in the industry. With heavy Korean-war orders to help, Jessop Steel netted $400,000 in 1951, $1,800,000 in 1952. Though earnings fell to $25,000 in 1954, Jessop came back handily through the rest...
...scene is the ruins of Athens, among which a few gods and goddesses still philander alongside the tourists. Orpheus, a hearts-and-flowers fiddler, plots with Pluto to get rid of his wife Eurydice, although she is really very fetching in her tight red pedal pushers. While Pluto and "Eury," as she is known to her friends, take off for a tryst in hell, trouble develops on Olympus, where an amorous Jupiter is losing the loyalty of his court (everybody is tired of that endless nectar and ambrosia diet); so he agrees to cheer up the gods by a mass...
...contradictory layers of human nature, it is nearly valueless. In his tremendous novel, Tolstoy's characters are so alive that they seem more like family and friends than fictional creations. On the VistaVision screen, these same people are only too clearly actors more accustomed to sports shirts and pedal pushers than to the finery of igth century courts and camps...
...Pedal Extremity. In Manhattan, chasing a suspicious-looking bicyclist, Detective John Keeney saw his quarry slipping away as the patrol car jammed in traffic, grabbed a delivery boy's bicycle, nabbed Bicycle Thief Camelio Vanterpool 35 blocks from where the chase started...