Word: stoves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BELEN, N. MEX. The caboose is no Pullman car, but it is comfortable enough with folded-down seats to sleep on, a lavatory, a small refrigerator, a water cooler and an oil stove, which serves to heat the car and warm the breakfast coffee cake. The desert dawn is bright and clear; the sun backlights the Manzano Mountains to the east. The train climbs continually to the Continental Divide crossing at Gonzales. "Back in the days of hand-fired steam locomotives, we were real glad to get here," says Ray Derksen, acting train master at Gallup. Derksen points...
...long Discoverer, built by Detroit's Rectrans Inc., sells for $16,000, features a pile-carpeted living room with built-in television and stereo, a wood-paneled bedroom and a bathroom complete with toilet, shower, sink, closet and medicine chest. The kitchen boasts a refrigerator-freezer, stove, roomy cabinets and sink. So far, a swimming pool is not available as an accessory...
...varying rates, generally casual maintenance and erratic availability of aircraft. Says Johnson, a moderately mod dresser who has the jut-jawed good looks favored in old Smilin' Jack cartoons: "We had to get away from the image of the guy in the leather jacket sitting around a potbelly stove at the airport. We wanted to streamline and standardize our operations so that the businessmen who used Hertz or Avis could identify with...
Recently in Melbourne, Miss Goolagong pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the year by defeating the world's première woman tennis player, Mrs. Margaret Court, 7-6, 7-6, for the Victorian Women's Singles title. Evonne then went on to whip Betty Stove of The Netherlands 6-1, 6-4, for the New Zealand championship. With Mrs. Court retiring after this season, Evonne has blossomed as the prime pretender to her throne. Mrs. Court herself said, "I think, at last, I have found an Australian to take my place...
...Biler," sort of base-burning stove tipped over. Cylinders, like teapots. Driving-wheels about the size of the largest felt hat you would see in the College Yard. No cab; Bill "straddles" the rear of the "biler." No smoke-stack. Leak handy. No bell or whistle; Bill probably "hollers" when he sees anything on the track. Whole made of pine-wood, newly shingled and lined in spots with tin. Name, "Sunny South." Rest of train, baggage and smoking (cards and whiskey) car, size of a royal octavo coffin; palace car, like an Irish jaunting...