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...long career began in Moro Bottom, Ark. His father was a hardscrabble farmer struggling to eke out a living in the Depression South. When the elder Bryant was disabled by high blood pressure, his wife Ida kept the family going by selling vegetables from a horse-drawn wagon. Young Paul perched beside her and felt the sting of disparagement from the "city kids" of nearby Fordyce (pop. 3,206). He first won social acceptance as a fiercely combative football player for the state-champ Fordyce Redbugs, and football has since made him the guest of Presidents...
...claimed, falsely, to have been wounded while fighting in Garibaldi's army, to have crossed the Rocky Mountains in a covered wagon and to have learned ancient mysteries in a Tibetan lamasery. She knew how to charm snakes and people, roll cigarettes, and swear fluently in several languages. She learned horsemanship from Kalmuck tribesmen and was a superb rough-and-tumble rider. The granddaughter of a Russian princess, she cared nothing for Victorian morality, but insisted, after two marriages, several lovers and the birth of an illegitimate child, that she was still a virgin...
Rolling libraries got going in 1905 with a horse-drawn wagon operating out of Hagerstown, Md. The motorized variety was widely in use before World War I and grew in popularity until well after World War II. Of late, branch libraries, mail order services and other ways of circulating books have been making bookmobiles seem a bit quaint, but there are at least 1,500 in operation in the 50 states. The Indiana department of public instruction still keeps two bookmobiles on the road each summer. This summer they distributed some 40,000 books, embracing 800 titles, at a cost...
...American economic decline. European and Japanese carmakers, who once slavishly copied Detroit's methods, now turn out products that are more stylish, more economical and better designed. U.S. consumers often drive to the shopping center in a Japanese mini-pickup, rather than in an American station wagon...
...Escort but smaller than the Dodge Aries. It is expected to get 28 m.p.g. in city driving. The new models will carry Chevrolet and Pontiac name plates and probably later Cadillac. They will come in a range of styles that will include a notchback and a five-door station wagon...