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...before he began to run, is now a trim 6 ft. 3 in., 205 lbs. He owns four airplanes, one of them a jet, and each day he takes off from his personal airport at Winrock bound for a campaign destination. When he arrives, a just-plain-folks secondhand bus, driven there the night before, is waiting to carry him over back roads to tiny hamlets and home towns. The Rockefeller bus is plastered with "Win with Win" signs; on the placard in front, the words are lettered backward so they can be read in a motorist's rear...
...content to rely on secondhand reports, the Commission determined to investigate everything afresh. Earl Warren interviewed Jacqueline Kennedy in her Georgetown home and Jack Ruby in his Dallas jail (Ruby called him "Earl"). Every member of the Commission flew to Dallas one or more times, painstakingly retraced the movements that Oswald was known to have made on Nov. 22. They visited the rooming house where he lived, the theater where he was captured, the jail basement where he was shot. At the Texas School Book Depository building, each one went to the sixth-floor spot where Oswald had stood, shouldered...
...often no more than 20-and far less affluent. He crosses the ocean on a charter flight, not a luxury liner, carries no steamer trunk but a single (generally battered) suitcase, and sometimes gets along on a knapsack. He travels in a Volkswagen (also generally battered) or a secondhand scooter, or he hitchhikes. He will stay in hostels or third-class hotels but prefers to bed down in a sleeping bag, never cares what his food is cooked in so long as it is native to the country he is in. The oldtime tourist still holes up at the Ritz...
...trend in the antique trade. Its name is "junk." True, it has to be out-of-the-ordinary junk. But to the expert spotter, every attic and old barn in the U.S. is a potential treasure-trove of salable detritus. The technique is summed up by a roadside secondhand store south of Santa Rosa, Calif., which advertises with unconscious wit: WE BUY JUNK. WE SELL ANTIQUES...
Although lean, leather-faced "R.M." got his big break as a pilot, he started out on the ground. In 1931 he set up a country jitney service with a secondhand Studebaker, did so well he soon had twelve cars. But the government refused him a franchise to operate into Melbourne because he was competing with government-owned railroads, and Ansett defiantly went airborne; no one seemed to care about the air. He bought a Fokker Universal, grandly painted "Ansett Airways" on its side, and began flying between Melbourne and Hamilton. He also took passengers along on stunt flights...