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Grenades in the Pocket. Three years ago, when the well-equipped and tightly trained Communists launched a big push, they slammed into the Catholic militia (and the other anti-Red forces) like a snowplow. Twenty outposts manned by the militiamen defected within 48 hours...
...Corp. Over the years, he has built his daughter a wood-paneled game room, installed a new furnace in his home, made Venetian blinds for all the windows, laid a concrete drive, screened in the front porch, made a suite of bedroom furniture and slipcovers for chairs, built a snowplow, and rigged a darkroom for his other hobby, photography. Says Lowry, in the independent voice of all his breed: "I don't believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter if I saw one. I haven't hired one for years...
...Other garden gadgets are also getting a big play. Food Machinery & Chemical Corp., for example, is doing a big business with small tractors ($129 and up) to which some 30 different attachments can be hitched-including a saw, a snowplow and blower, and an air compressor which can be used for spraying paint or insecticides or for greasing a car. Another Food Machinery device: the "Trim Master" ($45), which sucks up ragged grass along borders and snips...
...Winter Comes. In Brentwood, Mo., on a day when the heat stood at a record 100.8°, the board of aldermen received notice of the delivery of the city's brand-new snowplow...
There is only one good explanation for the disappearance of those Sno-Gos. That is the salutary and invigorating effect of the common snowplow on the activities of local policemen and their minions. At the first signs of snow the minions are out with their tow trucks. "Snow Removal," they mutter, as they yank your car off to their garage, looking nervously over their shoulders for the snout of the all-devouring plow looming up behind a drift. They might as well be looking for a Sno-Go. The tow trucks come and go, but still squatting in the rectangular...