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...Beautiful Afternoon. The three-day vacation trip was a special outing, particularly for Lillian Getting, who had spent long days and nights nursing her heart-patient husband through a tough recuperation period. With her husband well on the mend, she got into Frankie Murphy's Ford station wagon and set out with her friends for Starved Rock. They were prepared for a tranquil time: Mildred Lindquist brought her copy of A Field Guide to the Birds; Lillian Getting took a novel, The Lincoln Lords; they had their knitting, a pair of binoculars and a 35-mm. camera...
...seven days of their alert duty, Bulli and the other five of his crew go into a military retreat. They sleep in the same quarters, stay always within reach of one another. They travel in a blue station wagon that is striped with a yellow band and topped with a revolving red Grimes light, is always kept warmed up and ready...
...strange caravan stopped in Beirut last week to refresh itself after eight long months on the road. On July 11, a party of 101 Americans had moved out of Cape Town in a wagon train of 41 aluminum trailers and 41 pastel-colored trucks. They had zigzagged over desert, through jungle and swamp, and it was obvious that where-ever they went, the natives-the black miners of the South, the willowy Watutsis, the squat Pygmies, the haughty Moslems of the North-had never seen anything quite like them. The adults among the travelers were all retired, and their ages...
...brash trailer owner who disputed him got left behind in Ethiopia. He also delegates the work. The head of the crucial Gas and Fuel Committee is a vigorous former banker from Texas named George Ezell, 62. Louis Mousely, who once grew apples in upstate New York, is the wagon boss who herds the trailers into frontier circle formation at night, and carries a special piece of string about as a measure to see that each is the proper distance from the other. Retired Contractor Guy Hawks, 56, of Louisville, is morale officer, who must find a missionary to hold church...
...expand the staff to 85 this year. Says Manager Harold Zander: "You can't sell this type of installation by catalogue. When we get an inquiry, we have the instruments air-expressed from the U.S. if necessary, and our technicians rush them to the site by station wagon. We sell by showing how our installations operate." The businessman does not have to do it alone; the U.S. Government plans more help. The State Department intends to strengthen its commercial attache service to help businessmen abroad. The Administration is also at work on a plan for the Export-Import Bank...