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...Customers. To meet 10,000 voters one by one, Campaigner Chamberlain travels through the Sixth District in a red-white-and-blue campaign trailer ("The mortgage on it." says Chamberlain, "is as long as the trailer itself"), complete with loudspeaker and the recorded works of John Philip Sousa. When the trailer pulls up in a Sixth District town, Chamberlain scrambles out, sets up a sign proclaiming: YOUR CONGRESSMAN is HERE NOW! Then he goes back to his trailer office to await the passing parade of every sort of voter with every sort of problem...
...Chamberlain's visitors sign a register in the trailer's reception room, and thereby automatically put themselves on the mailing list for Chamberlain's congressional newsletter. When the stream of visitors slows down, Chamberlain jumps up, stuffs shopping bags ("How could that printer be so stupid as to print my name on only one side of the bag?") with emery boards for the ladies, matchbooks for the men, comic books and balloons for the kids. Then he hurries off ("When there aren't any customers, I go out and find them"), making the rounds...
...puttee'd policemen leaped on their machines and raced ahead to clear the way. The bass drum thumped into the smoky air and crowds of civilian marchers fell in behind. The firemen followed, in step, bearing posters that read VOTE YES ON 4. A red-white-and-blue semi-trailer truck rumbled into the square snorting diesel smoke and music, staffed by ten young men who threw down handfuls of Kennedy-Furcolo buttons and armloads of paper streamers. Just ahead of it walked a man inside a great box sign, inexplicably made up in a long beard...
...sleek, year-old abandoned Doberman pinscher that had been tipping over garbage cans, stealing food, mating with purebred bitches, howling to the whines of fire sirens. He was also fast and smart. Time after time, beginning in the summer of 1954, Inspector Roy L. McGowen drove out to the trailer camp area where the dog foraged. Usually, McGowen could pick up a stray inside of two or three weeks. But not Maverick, the Doberman. Says McGowen: "Hell, whenever we thought we'd outthought him, he'd go a different way-over a fence or under, or just plain...
...explanation: the company had insisted on loaning Kilb the cars to make sure that he would not inconvenience Adenauer by arriving late at top-level government appointments. The fact that Kilb might be in a position to influence the Bonn government's plans for restricting the size of trailer trucks-a subject of considerable interest to Daimler-Benz, as one of West Germany's major manufacturers of trucks-had nothing to do with the case, they said...