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...indefatigable worker, Zeinab Wali organized Nigerian Girl Guide and Brownie units, preached subtle emancipation propaganda on a weekly radio program called "Women's Chapter," and actively encouraged other women to be less timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded...
...much lower. But it will be wider and roomier, with better visibility and more safety features. It will also undoubtedly become more functional. The station wagon first started out as a farm carryall, then became a tricked-up luxury for the country-club set. But today, by wedding the sedan to the wagon, Detroit's stylists have given it a new function; they have turned out a handsome auto that can be used either to haul tomatoes to market or top hats to the opera. As a result, in ten years station wagons jumped from...
...soon learns to rearrange meal schedules to keep cook happy (no more 8:30 dinners), give at least 48 hours' notice before having company. She gladly jitneys the live-out maid to and from home (and waits while she does her shopping), sometimes even turns over the family sedan for the live-in maid's days off (two a week). Modern dayworkers want a solid breakfast as well as a thumping good lunch on the job, the same food the family eats-or better. The wise housewife watches her maid's health-and pays the bills -helps...
...famed "Big Bertha" cannon in World War I. Other relatives followed, presenting greetings and family gifts. Courteously, bowing slightly, Alfried Krupp* received a workers' delegate who stiffly presented him with a large steel candelabrum made in the Krupp factories. Then he settled into a black, chauffeur-driven BMW sedan for the 15-minute ride into Essen, the center of his empire and a city built almost entirely by the Krupps. There the day's most important ceremony began. On Müchener Strasse, hard by the sprawling Krupp works, he was ceremoniously presented with the keys...
...buildings were built of brick, wood and dingy stone until almost the beginning of the Christian era. The city itself, with a population that surpassed present-day Rome's 1,750,700, squeezed into an even smaller circumference, was a terrifying tangle of pedestrians, soldiers, horses, lurching sedan chairs and carts...