Word: snowplow
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Calder constructs his colossi segment by segment in a studio near his 15th century farmhouse nestled against a limestone cliff, overlooking vineyards and crouched cottages in the chateau country of Touraine. The sculptures bear terse, functional names, such as Dog, Long Nose or Snowplow, tower above the trim countryside. Yet, the neighbors call Calder "le Bricoleur"- the Tinker-because he is always willing to pause from his work and shape a tiny bright metal toy for one of their children...
...best skiers in the world have always come from the European Alps, where the first thing a boy learns is that he can parlay a little skill and rosy good looks into a career teaching rich American divorcees to snowplow. The angriest skiers in the world come, at the moment, from the U.S.. which has an old score to settle: in 24 years of trying. U.S. skiers have won just three gold medals in the Winter Olympics. Worse yet. all three were won by women-the last by Andrea Mead Lawrence in 1952-and no U.S. male has ever...
...hazards would be great on the journey to the border; so Weidner signed up a fellow villager, Jürgen Wagner, 22, to take the wheel. Eight days before Christmas, the pair began the feverish preparations in Weidner's garage. First Weidner and Wagner attached a heavy snowplow to the front of the bus, not to plow snow, but to scoop away the heavy obstacles they knew awaited them at roadblocks ahead...
...expects holiday buying to put merchants over the top for the year. Chicago's big Discounter Sol Polk expects Polk Brothers sales to be up 5% for the season and year, is doing a boom business in aluminum Christmas trees and-despite the lack of heavy snow-home snowplows. More than 1,000 plows priced from $129 to $169 have already been sold v. only 100 at this time last year. Polk thinks the home snowplow is beginning to compete with the foreign car as "the new mark of distinction in the suburb." Montgomery Ward has a solid cake...
...Rising by the dawn's early light, he milked 20 cows, bottled the milk and delivered it before school. The milk route taught him to hustle ("Because the load becomes lighter"), and it also taught him that a touch of extra service can win customers. He built a snowplow, hitched a horse to it and in the winter cleared his customers' driveways. Summers he hawked Ford tractors to farmers, found that the best way to sell was to demonstrate the plows himself; he would plow the farmers' land, and the farmers figured that if young Ed could...