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...restaurant: "He said he was going to kill the whole family and then come back and cut our throats." Half an hour later, Sherod, with his family in the car, sped down a highway, swerved across several lanes into oncoming traffic and crashed head-on into a tractor truck. The truck driver and his helper were injured. Sherod and two of his children were seriously hurt. Sherod's wife and seven youngsters were killed...
Nowadays, on the average of once every three weeks a tractor drags a bright yellow trailer onto the base; on the trailer lies a metallically glistening Atlas-Agena rocket, or a massive, white-painted Air Force Titan III, or a long-necked Thor-Delta...
...First get into trouble. Hook the ball up against a tractor shed on the lefthand side of the fairway. Then try the Upside Down Shot, by reversing a No. 7 iron and swinging lefthanded. Then there is the Hanging Lie for those happy times when the ball nestles on the far lip of a trap; back to the pin, you scoop up the ball with a wedge, and flip it over your head onto the green. After that there's the Kneeling Shot. "For any distance from 180 yds. to 230 yds.," writes Hahn, "this shot is amazingly simple...
Once the deal goes through-and negotiations with the Belgian government are well into their "final phase"-G.M. will begin building its new plant along the Antwerp waterfront, not far from the site of a Ford tractor plant. Taking advantage of Belgium's low duties on imported auto parts, G.M. will assemble its Opels from parts imported from West Germany and its Vauxhalls from parts made in its British plants. Eventually, G.M. may shift its Antwerp plant to full-scale manufacturing...
Apartment Lottery. Even at such prices space is hard to find. For the past year 19 U.S. families, moved to Tokyo by the Caterpillar Tractor Co., have been living in hotels, unable to find other accommodations. The company is now buying new apartments for them ranging from $60,000 to $90,000 apiece. Though government housing is rented cheap (about $10 per month), access to it is a matter of luck, since the government auctions the precious apartments off by lottery as fast as they are built. Seekers of office space fare little better, typically have...