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...doing a big business with small tractors ($129 and up) to which some 30 different attachments can be hitched-including a saw, a snowplow and blower, and an air compressor which can be used for spraying paint or insecticides or for greasing a car. Another Food Machinery device: the "Trim Master" ($45), which sucks up ragged grass along borders and snips...
Lady of the Descamisados. Only nine years ago, Eva Duarte was just a beguiling girl from a modest home in the pampas, trying to make her way in movie bit parts and radio soap operas. Her assets -a trim, 5-ft.-5-in. figure, a coldly sexy manner and a shrewd if untutored brain -made her popular at parties. At one of them she met Colonel Juan Perón, then a comer in the Ministry of War. That very night they slipped off to a seaside resort; soon they were occupying next-door apartments...
...floodlighted group around the speakers' platform, an aisle opened and the crowd saw Presidential Nominee Dwight Eisenhower, square-shouldered, striding briskly. The scattered cheering of the crowd rose to a roar, and through it sounded the bouncing blasts of the field-artillery march-The Caisson Song. Eisenhower, trim in a blue suit, was at the microphone waving and smiling, with Mamie Eisenhower at his side. The music changed to Dixie, Mamie threw a kiss to the crowd, and the crowd began to chant "We want Ike." Chairman Martin waited for a few minutes, then stepped to the microphone...
...Summa Theologica-is Edward Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. From now on, procrastinators will have to find fresh excuses: Gibbon has been streamlined. Dero Saunders, one of the editors of FORTUNE and an old Gibbon fan, has given Decline and Fall a close trim, from 1,400,000 to 200,000 words, without scalping it of all meaning...
...rescue committee. Says Adams: "None of the other directors wanted the job because they'd lose their reputations if we went under. I, having no reputation to lose, said sure, this is a challenging situation." Adams, a Harvardman ('32) and investment banker, got Raytheon into fighting trim, soon stepped on to the bridge as executive vice president. Four years ago Laurence K. Marshall, who had founded the company in 1922 with the help of M.I.T.'s famed Scientist Vannevar Bush, retired as president, and Adams took over. Through Belmont Radio Corp., a Chicago subsidiary acquired...