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This is a curious proposition, as Ballantine quickly notices, because the bank has not been built yet. Karp wants to knock over its temporary home, a modest but well-guarded house trailer. This is no easy matter to begin with, but Ballantine and his five-thumbed cronies make it even harder than necessary. The gang includes a giggly jet-setter, an ex-FBI agent who is Al G. Karp's nephew, a screwy mother and her manic son, and a black safecracker who wants to use his cut of the profits to run for mayor of Anaheim...
While he served in Congress, Ford managed to get back to Grand Rapids every week. He would hold open house in a trailer to greet all the voters who failed to come to Washington to see him. "He runs the best constituent service I have seen anywhere," says A. Robert Kleiner, Democratic co-chairman of Michigan's Fifth District. "After 25 years, there's almost nobody in the district he hasn't done a favor...
...begins. The first class to run is straight trucks. Only one entrant showed up for this class, so a five-axle trailer driver switched over to give him some competition...
Driving a five-axle tank trailer, he drove the course with incredible ease, hitting no barricades and never stopping. He wound the truck backwards through the serpentine course without a moment's hesitation, and finished in nearly three minutes under the allotted time...
...richest families; of a heart attack; in Miami Beach, Fla. Opting for journalism over college, Vanderbilt embarrassed his clan in Farewell to Fifth Avenue (1935), a candid volume of childhood memories that caused his name to be struck from the Social Register. Living and working in an elaborately furnished trailer-"I would rather be a vagabond than a Vanderbilt," he once wrote-he periodically skittered round the world to interview celebrities for various newspapers and magazines. He was married seven times, divorced...