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...beast that is half horse and half griffin.* Last week came word of a proposed merger which would create a real-life business hybrid-part cow and part bus. The companies concerned, whose directors have already approved a stock swap, are ACF-Brill Motors Co., maker of buses and trackless trolleys, and Foremost Dairies, Inc., seller of milk, ice cream and other dairy products in the South and (through foreign subsidiaries) the Far East. For ACF-Brill, which just turned the profit corner last year, after three years of losses (TIME, April 7), the deal, if the stockholders approve, means...
...design since the stone age, and all was well. But then the caravan stopped for an instant, the Lapp got up, handed me the crude reins, grinned encouragingly, and was gone. There I crouched, staring at the jiggling rump of the reindeer, going like crazy across the virtually trackless forests, over ditches, tree stumps and fences. By the time the day was over, I had fallen off only once and had learned to speak the reindeer language fluently; this consists chiefly of the word brrrr shouted at the animal. It is supposed to slow the beast down. Apparently my accent...
...second in two consecutive days on Massachusetts Avenue, held up resh hour traffic at 5:50 p.m. yesterday, when a Square bound trackless trolley collided with a passenger car at Hancock Street...
...believe that threats con produce responsible student behavior. Nevertheless, it has a responsibility to point out to student the fact that mass public disturbances in the Square are no longer tolerable. They belong in the age of the flying wedge, John the Orangeman and Bloody Monday, not of the trackless trolley. Expressions of innocent, boyish joie de vivre though they may be, they are a menace to life, limb and property, both of the public and of Harvard students. The Board has a further duty to point out to students the risks they run if they Participate. Even if nobody...
This atomic-age potboiler appears to make sense to its adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that...