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...traffic island she is momentarily distracted, people are shouting "you can't go that way" and she thinks they are warning her, though of what she doesn't know. When she turns however, she sees that a graybearded man in a wrecked station wagon has driven headlong into oncoming traffic, his attention shattered by his reverie, his daydream invoked by ogling...
...real showstopper. Pearson, 26, a stocky, crew-cut body-shop owner from Louisville, began a year ago to repair the engine in his truck and maybe do a little body work. Some $6,000 and "a helluva lotta hours" later, he hitched up the truck behind his station wagon, packed in his wife Bernadene and their four-year-old daughter Zandra and entered the exhibition circuit. In Detroit he picked up an award for the "Outstanding Custom Pickup," but the prize money-$90 -hardly paid his expenses. "All this traveling to auto shows gives me great ideas for my body...
...spent watching the city go through its final agonies before Mao's forces swept in. A public execution of six black-marketeers, scapegoats of the collapsing economy, was held at the railroad station. To cover it, I had to accompany the victims in the police paddy wagon as it careened through the tangle of traffic on Nanking Road, the siren wailing and the doomed men screaming for mercy. At the station the victims were dumped into the street and then shot through the head, one by one, pointblank...
Captain Page, reached Friday morning after a long night of post-game celebration at the Winthrop House grill, where free beer was served, would only comment, "The Winthrop wagon really rolled last night." Page then added, "And anyway, if you don't play to win, why keep score...
...last year; his 3% stock ownership in the drugmaking Schering-Plough Corp. rose to a year-end total of $105 million. Plough started in business at the age of 16 by borrowing $125 from his father in order to sell "Plough Antiseptic Healing Oil" door-to-door from a wagon in Memphis; 65 years and 29 acquisitions later, he has built a worldwide company that he still actively manages as chairman. Plough's record of fast earnings growth-from $1.43 a share in 1968 to an estimated $2.90 last year-has caught the eye of investment analysts...