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...this week became the first to hit the market. It unveiled the Rambler, * a small (100-inch wheelbase), trim, five-passenger convertible with an 82-h.p. motor. Most notable feature: the top does not fold down but slides down through heavy steel side-rails like the top of a rolltop desk. The price: $1,808, including radio, heater and air-conditioner, about $300 less than the bigger Ford and Chevrolet convertibles with similar equipment...
...Does It Matter to You?" When Kenneth Oberholtzer moved into Room 212 and sat down at its old rolltop desk, he wasted no time finding out what Denver needed. In his conservative blue suits and quiet ties, he went around to P.T.A. groups, called meetings of teachers and principals to talk things over. He persuaded the University of Denver to make a survey of his schools, then got a committee of 100 leading citizens to determine how much money the schools needed...
...accountant to Nicaragua to help collect customs payments and make sure that some of the money went to service foreign debts. In the unabashed days of dollar diplomacy, that was one way the U.S. saw to it that a troubled Caribbean republic's obligations were met. At his rolltop desk in a musty corner of the wood-and-adobe Managua customhouse, Irving A. Lindberg did an honest and efficient job. More important, as the years passed, he made friends with a rising young National Guard officer named Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza...
...still packs the same weight (1961bs.) that he carried in college. He runs his global empire from a barren, middling-sized headquarters on the 58th floor of Manhattan's Chrysler Building. There, he swivels between a clean work table, where he does his conferring, and a rolltop desk (always locked when he is away), where he does his thinking, figuring and secret dreaming. Close at hand are two small globes. (The big three-foot one on which he used to plan his routes and spot his far-flung bases, measuring off the distances with pieces of string, has been...
...taken ever since). The ailment has never recurred. For recreation, he likes to play gin rummy or backgammon with his wife, swims (sidestroke) twice a week in the Senate pool. Back home in Grand Rapids, he lives in a biggish brick & stucco house, works at an old-fashioned rolltop desk in his book-lined...