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...their Hondas, which are underpowered for the workout they get on a patrol through the boondocks. "If we had a Harley motor in a frame like this," says Tomusho, "we'd really have something." The foursome would prefer tough scramblers, "with big drive sprockets, knobby wheels-and more vroom." Maintenance is also a problem because of the dust, and spare parts have to be bought in local Vietnamese shops; the U.S. Army does not stock them...
...just because a fellow goes vroom-vroom, slides around the streets, breaks the speed limit and scares people, doesn't mean that he is a racing driver. Racing isn't all noise and speed and excitement. It is tedious little chores: counting revs, gauging distances, plotting trajectories. It is absolute concentration-the kind it takes to flick through a corner in driving rain at the limit of tire adhesion, the point at which one more mile-per-hour will send the car hurtling off the road. It is good driving at its best...
...Britain, too, unemployment is down to 1.4% of the 24 million work force, lowest since 1957. In The Netherlands, the big Amsterdam department store Vroom & Dreesmann, also trying to attract salesgirls, offered "free dancing, music or foreign-language lessons." To keep government career men from straying to higher-paying commercial jobs, the Dutch government showers them with new titles and decorations to raise their social status. Many Australian firms now supply free transportation to and from work for employees, pay them for the traveling time. In Germany, a West-phalian farmer who could not keep his pea pickers down...
...Number (by Arthur Carter; produced by Paul Vroom & Irving Cooper) has faults galore, but one very respectable virtue: it keeps its audience interested. Without offering anything very new, Playwright Carter has built up a good situation for melodrama, thrown in some characters that are tough, some twists that are lively, and even a surprise or two. In more expert hands, The Number might have excited audiences instead of merely interesting them...
Though he doesn't look it, Joe has blue-blood ancestry. His branch of the Goulds has been in New England since 1635, and he is related to the Lowell, Lawrence, Storer, and Vroom families. Harvard was the appropriate college for him, and he graduated "magna cum difficultate" along with Conrad Aiken, Gluyas Williams, Howard Lindsay, and his "most distinguished classmate," Richard Whitney...