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Wilkins stands in direct contrast to such demagogic types. The 14-hour days he normally puts in at his job are severely straining his strength. He survived surgery for stomach cancer in 1946, but he has a serious gall-bladder ailment that keeps him off the cigars and social drinking he used to enjoy. It does not, however, keep him out of his ivory Triumph sports car, which he loves to drive along parkways near the apartment he shares with his St. Louis-born wife Minnie in an integrated neighborhood in Queens...
...last week, the Senator left the Senate floor, complaining of an upset stomach. Less than 36 hours later he died in Bethesda Naval Hospital of a ruptured main heart artery...
...with his moving assembly line had, by 1933, been displaced as the world's biggest automaker by a nimble conglomerate, General Motors, which gave better styling (at a higher price) and believed in modern corporate decentralization instead of Ford's autocratic one-man rule. Ford could not stomach being bested; he opposed anything that General Motors had developed first, refused to let his subordinates mention G.M.'s name. The decline of his company and of the whole U.S. economy also stiffened his opposition to labor unions. While the daring Henry Ford of 1915 had made history...
...Fence." The grandson of a pioneer, Scandalous John was once a gifted college veterinary professor; after years of research he had succeeded in keeping a cow alive with a four-stomach picture window. But McCanless' impersonal superiors didn't care enough to look through it. Then John's wife died. Then he lost his teaching chair after he took to packing a Colt .44 to class. He fell behind on the mortgage on the family ranch...
...bloody end on a city sidewalk in a confrontation with an uncomprehending guardian of the sanitary code. It's probably just as well, in view of an alternative offered the hero along the way: a job developing a chimpanzee with a window in its stomach for use in aspirin commercials...