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...rentals, Avis, Inc., makes much of the fact that it is only a hard-trying No. 2. Obviously, No. 1 is the Hertz Corp., with a rental fleet now totaling 125,000 vehicles. Hertz's familiar yellow signs are out in 98 countries, most recently including Finland, New Guinea and the Dominican Republic. Revenues this year will top $300 million...
...There are still white educators coming into Roxbury interested only in getting a grant to make guinea pigs out of Negroes. It's all for themselves and none for us. We don't want these dilettantes any more," Wood said. "We must keep Dr. Funk out of the picture and do it ourselves," Wood added...
...Luck. As far as the public knows, Earhart and Noonan left Lae, New Guinea, on July 1, 1937, on the most dangerous leg of their trip-a 2,550-mile leap to tiny (one square mile) Rowland Island, where no plane had ever landed before. Early on July 2, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, standing by at Rowland, received a series of messages from Pilot Earhart reporting that she was unsure of her position and that she was running low on gas. Her last message, delivered in a broken and choked voice, was a plea...
...century tragedy by George Buchner. Although many of the lines and the occurrences in its twenty-nine scenes are ambiguous and open to varied interpretation, it's pretty clear that Buchner was a social critic who didn't like what society was doing to mankind. Woyzeck himself is the guinea pig used by the characters Buchner hated: most specifically, the army represented by a vicous and stupid Captain, and misguided science, represented by a hack doctor. Because of economic pressure, Woyzeck must allow himself to be exploited in order to live. His sanity rests on his faith in Marie...
...three-week tour of Viet Nam in preparation for filming The Green Berets, John Wayne, 59, said he found today's G.I.s "more on the ball than they were in their fathers' war." Explained the Duke: "Maybe it's because the guys I met in New Guinea during the last war had been there a long time and didn't have enough ammunition or food. Morale was bad. These boys in Viet Nam know that they will have only a year's tour of duty, and they're out there and ready. They also...