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...will leave it to your imagination to think of what it means in terms of automotive home workshops, sporting goods, lawnmowers, garden tools, casual clothing . . . Furthermore, this suburbia is pointing the way to the next development, which is .the sundown farmer and his demand for the small power tractor with its many pieces of ingenious extra equipment...
...second his shoes slid on the polished floor. That was last October. John was not the ballroom type. He was a plump, grey-haired grass widower, and the president of two unromantic family businesses: Winter Bros. Stamping Co. (auto parts) of Detroit and Winter Pressed Steel Co. (tractor parts) of Napoleon, Ohio. But John was dogged. He started right out dancing-and he danced ten hours...
Sundowner's Tractor. A three-wheel tractor designed especially for the nation's estimated 2,000,000 "sundown farmers," who work at regular jobs during the day and farm small plots in the evening, was put on sale by Sears, Roebuck. Powered with a 6-h.p. gasoline engine, the tractor can pull any of a dozen attachments for crop work, lawnmowing and snow removal. Price without attachments...
...Constellation, helicopter, limousine. jeep, tractor, oxcart and imperial coach, Vice President Richard Milhous Nixon circled the globe. In ten speech-filled weeks he traveled 45,539 miles, visiting 19 Pacific and Asian lands, shaking thousands of hands. Last week Dick Nixon and his wife Pat returned to Washington...
...Kerchevals were licked; the cabin burned down. But on the next day a neighbor brought them temporary housing: two sheep wagons stocked with food and clothing and beds all neatly made up. They had offers of 22 stoves. Roofing, cement, building materials appeared from nowhere; neighbors arrived with a tractor to start construction on their new house. "He's been looking for an excuse to stay-now he's got it," said Mrs. Kercheval. "But I want to stay, too." Said her husband: "I'll have to stay here the rest of my life to show them...