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...where he majored in physics and math. In his last year, he married a girl he had met in church: Johanna Wilhelmina Schouten, whose parents emigrated from Holland. In recent years, she and their five children have bravely endured both his long absences from home and his addiction to secondhand automobiles (he owns four: a '36 Dodge coupé, a '41 Dodge pickup, a '50 Ford convertible, a '51 Chevrolet sedan...
...hillbillies (the name they dislike most). By whatever name, more than a million impoverished white Southerners, comprising 20% of the population of the 250 Appalachian Mountain counties in nine Southern states, *moved northward between 1950 and 1960 to eke out a precarious living in the big cities. Packed into secondhand cars loaded down with their meager possessions, swarms still arrive every day in such cities as Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Springfield. With them arrive the hopes, problems and frustrations of a new U.S. minority. They are the Okies...
Looking as gaunt as a secondhand scarecrow, Husband Eddie Fisher flew back from a TV performance in Lisbon and hurried to his sick wife's bedside. Actor Richard Burton-who plays Mark Antony in the picture-flew in from Paris, where he had been moonlighting in a minor part in The Longest Day. Meanwhile, rumors flew every which...
Coins to Deals. The beginnings are sufficiently classic: Mayer Amschel Rothschild was a secondhand-shopkeeper, locked at night inside the Frankfurt ghetto. Appropriately enough, Mayer began to specialize in coins, and rose by way of highborn coin collectors. From selling coins, the family went on to lending money; the sons left home, and went from trading in commodities to dealing in finance. In those days, when news traveled no faster than the stagecoach or sailing ship, the five brothers realized that a speedy communications system could mean money, organized their own version of a private pony express and courier service...
...purity and green for hope," explained Tshombe in an exultant moment. There also were three Maltese crosses on his banner-in the burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia. He was the solemn black defender of white capitalism in middle Africa, a rarity; yet he sneered at his Belgian sponsors as deceitful, and at the U.S. as "cowardly and decadent...