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...machine gunner, but he fluffed his one chance to use his weapon. While riding a half-track in the last days of the war, he spotted a couple of German soldiers, wheeled his gun into position and pulled the trigger. "It just went click." He had forgotten to load...
...entries competing as individuals. To prove the point, Chinetti had the cars painted five different colors. A Ford mechanic admitted that the Chaparrals were "the fastest cars here, no doubt about it." But could they keep running for twelve hours? The automatic transmissions were certain to impose an extra load on the Chaparrals' brakes-since they would be unable to gear down on Se-bring's 13 curves. Snorted Hall: "We've got heavy-duty stuff on these cars-bigger brakes, bigger tires, bigger wheels. We're prepared...
Passive Role. Colleges have conflicting ideas on what to do with the artist once they snare him. Some insist, as does Chicago, that he carry a full teaching load. "I don't know how much permanent value there is to just rubbing shoulders with great names," says Chicago English Chairman Gwin J. Kolb. Ivy League and West Coast schools tend to use the artist in informal seminars, then let him work while students kibitz or wait to nail him at coffee breaks. At Wisconsin, Painter Aaron Bohrod avoids talks, just keeps his studio open. "Fascinating verbalists may not lead...
With the use of such "new tools" as rent subsidies to displaced families and cash payments to displaced small businesses, there will be "a lessening of the relocation load, and greater preservation of existing neighborhoods," Weaver explained...
Such a philosophy obviously has built-in risks. Kaiser has taken on an extraordinarily heavy debt load, which both limits the payment of cash dividends and makes the company vulnerable to any severe recession in the future. Last year his engineers lost $16 million, largely because a Kaiser dam in Greece was washed out by floods. A dike-building project in Israel was damaged when the Dead Sea overflowed-for the first time since the days of Moses. Other businessmen often wonder why Kaiser is deeply committed in such unpredictable areas as Latin America (where Kaiser-Willys is the continent...