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...idea one hot afternoon when he saw a pickup truck towing an indomitable water skier along a 6-ft.-wide irrigation ditch. He was working on a commercial adaptation of boatless skiing when a friend wrote to him about one that had already been developed by a Swiss trolley-car company, and Maxwell wrote at once to get the first U.S. franchise, which may soon put water skiing on a nationwide basis...
...larger number of Czech buses, recently supplemented by Chinese-made trackless trolley, are generally overcrowded. People wait in orderly lines until the buses come and then scramble for the door, the conductor bodily pushing the last few persons aboard. Frequently the conductor makes the trip to the next stop hanging halfway ou the door, trying to force...
...champion of them all is Argentina's nationalized railroad system. The government estimate puts the 1965 rail loss at $318 million; the actual loss will be more than that in the first ten months. And what a Toonerville Trolley it is-57% of the 27,000 miles of track is more than 40 years old and is in bad shape; 30% of the diesel locomotives are out of service; most passenger and freight cars are obsolete...
...passenger monster, Daimler has developed a "people-to-people" campaign aimed at developing nations. It has sold 1,350 buses to Teheran for its public-transportation system, wishes that it could do as well in its own headquarters city. Despite fervent Daimler salesmanship, Stuttgart continues to use trolley cars...
...horse bug," confided the man who trained Gallant Fox and Omaha, Nashua and Bold Ruler, recalling the days when his mother-in-law wanted him to work as a streetcar conductor. "I was sending home more money from the tracks than I could have made on the trolley, but there's not another damn thing I could have done...