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...brands as Diamond T. Reo, Autocar, Available. Peterbilt and Divco. Chevy's and Ford's big lead comes from concentrating some 80% of their efforts on the popular, mass-produced light and compact trucks. This leaves the heavy-duty field wide open for smaller companies, which thrive by tailor-making trucks ranging from $6,500 highway tractors to $75,000 giants that can haul 49 tons of iron ore. Although they account for only 13% of industry production, the big trucks bring in 34% of the money...
...gives the place the air of a millinery bawdyhouse: most of the ladies in the paintings wear large, horticultural hats and little else. Painter Ben Johnson, 60, brings off the neat trick of evoking an almost Rubens fleshiness while adhering to a strict hard-edge technique, and his voluptuaries thrive surprisingly well in their poster environment...
...that the Big South like an untamed stallion, does its best to shake men loose. Eighty-mile-an-hour winds roar and whistle in its crags and canyons, rain drenches it (sometimes as much as 72 in. in three months), earth quakes shudder through the ground, and termites thrive and multiply. The people who came to such a country and stayed were, first of all, hardy, lonely pioneers and, secondly, oddball fugitives from the world of modern convenience...
Many there are who thrive and prosper on who the just manage Commercial to survive. Christmas, But many sink more or swim, as a Beverly Hills psychoanalyst shuddered last week: "Christmas puts the damnedest demands on everybody...
...travel of its citizens are those which protect them from bodily harm. There is no such danger in travel to Cuba; Cuba, unlike China, welcomes American visitors. Freedom of movement is a necessary corollary to freedom of speech, to the freedom to be informed. The democratic process cannot thrive entirely on second-hand news reports and government press releases. Americans must have the liberty to go where they want to, when they want to. travel to Cuba will come inevitably, and it will come...