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Random Harvest. In Denver, cops made the pinch on general principles when they spotted a car containing: 1) James Yohe, 2) Charles Crider, 3) two women, 4) a toy wagon, 5) a toy tractor, 6) a wooden horse, 7) a white rabbit, 8) a quart of whisky, 9) a red hen, 10) a garbage can, 11) a black hen, 12) a gamecock, 13) a deodorized skunk...
Standing on its tractor-drawn launching trailer, the Matador looks like an odd crossbreed of a jet plane and a Buck Rogers fantasy. It is long, sleek, round as a cigar, and fitted with a pair of stubby supersonic triangular wings. In its nose, the missile carries a sand-filled dummy warhead. In its tail, the Matador carries a jet engine for endurance and a huge, underslung rocket motor for take-off power. Inside the Matador, every inch of space is crammed with fuel and the humming electronic navigator that guides it to its target...
...water, set up temporary quarters a mile away at Kansas State College. There they joined with the Kansas State Collegian (circ. 8,376) and the rival Manhattan Tribune-News (circ. 3,365) in a joint flood edition. The lola Register (circ. 4435) went to press with a farm tractor harnessed to the presses for power...
Cotton Caravan. For cotton-spraying time in the Sudan, a British inventor has devised a camel-borne spraying machine, which he demonstrated at the International Agricultural Conference in Sussex last week. The hand-operated pump fitted with two nozzles can spray crops in desert areas where no tractor-drawn equipment can be used. A dromedary named Joan (see cut) was drafted from the Chessington Zoo for last week's demonstration...
...kans fighters met handicaps. Landlords and peasants alike protested the "ruining of the land." Many a native tractor driver, leaving his machine in a field overnight, returned to find a tiger sleeping in the driver's seat. Wild elephants, nature's tractors, frequently came to inspect their mechanized cousins. Bulldozers had to be drafted to build roads through the wilderness to carry fuel to the big machines. Despite India's heat and dust, the drivers-many of whom had driven tanks in the Indian army-kept their machines in top condition. When the tractors successfully cleared...