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Jimmy was running Edington Mains himself by the time he was 18; his father had taken over another farm 25 miles away. He had his own car, a vintage Sunbeam Talbot, and he began competing in local rallies, driving from point to point around the countryside in precisely the allotted time. "Father said it was a waste of time-and he wanted to know why my car cost five times as much to keep up as his did." He kept on rallying, mostly on the sly. One night, driving his mother to a sister's house to baby...
...Sunset Petroleum, which is building huge new towns near Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego, got 73% of its $27.7 million revenue from realty last year. Land development and brokerage accounted for 14% of its $25 million gross for the venerable West Coast lumber firm of Pope & Talbot. Puget Sound Power & Light Co. realized 10% of its net income from such realty operations as an industrial park, 515 acres for homes, a hotel and a shopping center...
...week, while Laborites shaped the nationalization bill that they hope to bring before the House of Commons next month, Sir Julian Pode, president of the British Iron & Steel Foundation, charged that a takeover "cannot fail to harm" the industry. Nationalization would mean "disaster for the country," warned B. Chetwynd Talbot, chairman of the South Durham Steel & Iron Co., Ltd. And Alan James Peech, chairman of United Steel Companies, Britain's biggest steel company, moved on to the next big question: What compensation should the government pay if steel is nationalized? If Labor bases its offer on recent stock prices...
...Antonio started making Point of Order in 1960. The film was the brainchild of Daniel Talbot, owner of the New Yorker Theatre, but it was de Antonio who edited it and organized it into its present form. At first the two men, neither of whom had ever made a film before, hired an experienced German editor to do the cutting. "He was a real Stalinist type," de Antonio recalls. "He wanted to open the movie with the American flag waving in front of a Vermont church and end it with McCarthy's funeral. In between scenes he wanted film clips...
...consisting of veterans Jean Beliveau and Boom Boom Geoffrion, with rookie John Ferguson, has already scored nine goals, but should show fatigue as the season progresses. Dickie Moore has re-retired, leaving Henri Richard with little support on the second line. The formerly impregnable defense has only Jean Guy Talbot left. If age weakens Boliveau and Geoffrion, Montreal could miss the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the first time since...