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...Cubans. A former army officer runs a boardinghouse. shares a single bedroom with four members of his family. A onetime accountant mixes chemicals on the night shift of a local plant. Ramon Rasco, once a prominent Havana lawyer, makes the Miami rounds in his battered old Chevrolet station wagon each day, collecting clothes for a dry cleaner. His wife Emilia has learned to cook-in Havana she had three servants -and the two eldest of her six children go to special English classes to make things easier for them at public school. In her drab apartment over a garage, Emilia...
...most skillful of Denver's police safecrackers: "A drunk, if he had dough on him, never had it when he got out of jail. If the bartender didn't roll him, the cops did. If the arresting officer didn't roll him, the paddy-wagon crew did. If the paddy-wagon crew didn't, the guys in the jail did." There was also the profitable pastime of frisking cadavers. "On a D.O.A. [Dead on Arrival] there's always a race to get there to get the cream," Patrolman Jerry Sanford says. "All the cars...
...Small Part." Crisscrossing Arkansas in a cream-colored Ford station wagon, Fulbright plans to make at least 40 speeches by mid-December, before audiences ranging from the Altrusa Club of Little Rock to the United Church Women of Fort Smith. The reason for his urgency: Fulbright faces his most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record...
...stock, has given the rest to employees-Kroc still spends half his time darting about the country in a company Aero Commander to size up new locations and licensees. To keep his drive-ins from becoming teen-ager jukebox jungles, he tries to build his trade around the station-wagon set. ("We count church steeples, not cars, when we are deciding where to locate.") And despite mounting competition from a score of rival chains that have copied his system, he confidently expects to have 550 drive-ins doing $90 million worth of business by the end of next year. Says...
American Machine & Foundry Co., more widely known for its automatically controlled bowling Pinspotters, is in aerospace with launch site mechanisms for Titan I, Atlas and Minuteman plus a projected moon wagon which will travel on wire brushes...