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Saud tries hard to be the Koran's conscientious father to his people. He travels the country (nowadays he flies in a Convair, has an air-conditioned trailer driven overland to meet him at his destination), listens to a sheik's troubles, soothes him with a Cadillac, a school or a clinic-given as a favor rather than as a right. But father comes first. In two years observers estimate Saud has set aside $100 million for new palaces. One just completed in Jiddah (cost: $28 million) brings his personal collection of palaces to 24, and another...
...TRAILER FERRY service to Europe is starting with shipment of 97 loaded truck-trailers from Brooklyn to France. TMT Trailer Ferry, Inc. is chartering 475-ft. transatlantic ferry Carib Queen to Army, expects to begin commercial trips by March. Company figures roll-on, roll-off shipments will cut shipping time by two-thirds, trim packaging and handling costs...
...biggest hit was the biggest boat, the 53-ft. Wheeler cruiser with twin 285-h.p. diesels, wall-to-wall carpeting, two bathrooms, a stall shower, electric galley, and private staterooms for ten. Price: $110,000. The most versatile: Neptuna's $4,400 Sportsman, a new amphibious auto trailer with retractable wheels that sleeps four on land or sea. The fastest: Bellingham Shipyards' 100-m.p.h. Bikini with hydroplane fiber-glass hull, twin inboard engines firing at 430 h.p., and a price...
Self-loading Truck. Denver's Mighty Mover Co. showed off an open framework trailer truck that drives over its load, then, with cables on pulleys, hoists the load firmly into the framework. The Straddle Trailer, which can pick up loads 50 ft. long, 6 ft. wide and 10 ft. high, can be pulled by a truck cab at speeds up to 60 m.p.h. (cost...
David D. Galloway '59, of Adams House and Memphis, received a head injury in the collision of a Greyhound bus and a tractor-trailer near Lexington, Ky. The crash, which occurred Jan. 4, killed six people, including the driver. Fifteen were hospitalized...