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Like most major Latin American companies, SIAM (whose initials, in Spanish, stand for American Industrial Machinery Corp.) is not an innovator but an imitator. Under various license deals, it produces Westinghouse refrigerators and air conditioners, Hoover washing machines, British Motor Corp. Riley cars, Italian Lambretta scooters, Swedish Electrolux floor polishers and a multitude of other hard goods for Argentina, which boasts the broadest middle-class market in Latin America. Says Chairman Guy Clutterbuck, 55: "Conditions in Argentina make it difficult to carry out long and costly experimental programs. After all, Europe and the U.S. have much more technical know...
...though he was an indifferent student, his royal birth won him a scholarship to Cambridge, where he began to read law. But the Tunku skipped most of his lectures, seldom missed a tea or dinner-dance, distinguished himself mainly by picking up 28 traffic violations in his silver Riley with red fenders...
...four flyers were Alabamans, residents of the Birmingham area and onetime employees of the Hayes Aircraft Corp. there. Riley Shamburger, 36, was a major in the Alabama Air National Guard and a World War II veteran, with more than 12,000 flying hours. Thomas Willard Ray, 30, was a former Air Force staff sergeant. Leo Baker, 35, had been an Air Force tech sergeant and a flight engineer for Hayes. Wade Carroll Gray, 38, had been a Hayes test pilot...
...spirit -the rugged self-reliance of the frontier. Frost seemed a throwback to an earlier time when philosophical and social questions could be handily submitted to farmyard logic. Just because of this, many latter-day critics who set the fashions regarded him slightingly-as a kind of James Whitcomb Riley with muscles. Intellectuals today tend to look on the age of anxiety as an urban affair, a unique fix man has just now got himself into. Frost's genial parsing of the components of the world in terms of bears and blueberrying, they feel, just...
Princeton's football team came to Cambridge last year without the services of star player Greg Riley, and left without its Ivy League lead and undeafted record. A tough and determined Crimson team came from behind in the waning moments of the game to defeat the Tigers...