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...Angeles, the nation's No. 1 auto market, sales were the slowest in eight years. In Miami, where prices have dropped an average 35% in the last year, some 50 dealers have gone out of business...
...seat, leaving the fire and the talk to his guests, moving only when one or the other needed fuel. He has the reticence of the confirmed pipe smoker, for the British often use their pipes as stoppers to save them the trouble of opening their mouths, even choosing the slowest tobaccos to keep them quiet. In a series of Oxford dialogues which appear in his Let Dons Delight, Knox makes a personal appearance, but his remarks are only indicated on the printed page by a series of dots. His conversation is not always as reserved as that, but when...
...first battle, over enemy-held territory ten miles south of the Korea-Manchuria border, a formation of four F-86s, led by Lieut. Colonel Bruce Hinton of Stockton, Calif., throttled down to their slowest cruising speed to disguise their true speed from the enemy. The trap worked: four MIGs came languidly up to investigate. Covered by his wingman, Colonel Hinton fired three bursts into a MIG and saw it go spinning down in flames. "I know I got that one all right. I must have killed the pilot," he said, "he made no attempt to get out-didn...
Most of timid, inefficient Betty's jobs were as dull in the doing as they are in the telling. And she was a failure at most of them. After ten years at night school studying shorthand, she felt that she deserved "some kind of medal for being the slowest-witted, most-unable-to-be-taught and longest-attender-at-school-studying-one-subject." Then one day sister Mary told her to write a bestseller. Result: The Egg and I the $49.50 pumps and $100,000 from movie rights alone...
...doesn't show in the scoring, but the freshman sextet played one of its slowest games of the season yesterday at the Arena in topping Noble and Greenough...