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Frank Grinnel, a retired trucker himself, is the organizer of the affair. "I've been associated with the Roadeo since 1949," he says as he unloads equipment from the back of a station wagon. The beer cooler goes in the shade by the hangar. "Yes, we've been having these for years now. Used to be there was more interest, more people turn out. But it'll be all right, you'll see." His manner is gruff but friendly; everyone here seems to know...
...this seven-member coalition, the thinking of Southern Democrat and Northern Republican had much in common. "I had a yearning, an innate desire to find the President innocent," recalled Walter Flowers. "I put the blinders on like the old mule used to wear going down the road with the wagon behind him. I couldn't see anything ahead except the road." He was partic ularly troubled by the March 21, 1973 tape, not merely the celebrated "For Christ's sake, get it" quote, but rather, as Flowers put it, "the matter-of-fact way in which the payment of hush...
...Square. Sandwiches are also served; if you are not in the mood for a hot dog, order the pastrami on a bun. The side dishes at Zum Zum beef up what might otherwise be a skimpy meal. Light and dark beer is served, but if you are on the wagon Zum Zum's birch beer will...
Since they both come from poor peasant families, Robert and Yvette consider their present lifestyle, hard as it is, an improvement over what they knew as children. They have a television set, a washing machine and a secondhand Peugeot station wagon, and Robert, like all French workers, gets a generous five-week vacation every year. One week of the five is usually spent on camping trips with the family, while Robert uses the other four to earn extra money at odd jobs in the village...
...took his chief engineer with him, and set up Compugraphic. His first successful product was a computer designed to cut 50% off the time required to set a telephone book in type; Garth introduced it by driving it round the country in the back of his station wagon. Now that he has largely sewed up the market for photocomposition machines in newspapers, his next goal is to sell equipment to job shops, department stores and schools that do printing...