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...after he got elected, Christine began to have doubts. For one thing, Big Jim began wearing socks and a pin-striped suit and took to riding around in a Cadillac sedan. For another thing, he didn't send for her. Finally-to the dismay of her father's neighbors, who wanted Big Jim to build them a "black top" (paved) road-she decided...
...black sedan was stalled in traffic a few minutes before students blocked the streets with a great sign-waving demonstration. They pasted on the front fender a sign: "Down with British Imperialism." I stuck my head out and said: "I'm not British." A bespectacled student in a long blue gown said pleasantly: "I'm sorry." Then he and his friends pasted another sign on the rear door. It said: "Down with British Imperialism and the U.S.A...
Czech In. The first postwar Tatra (Czechoslovak) automobile to reach the U.S. went on display in Manhattan. Low-slung, and fitted with a sliding sedan top, the Tatra has its air-cooled engine in the rear and a cyclops-eye headlight in addition to the usual two in front. Czechoslovakia's nationalized auto industry is producing the car at the rate of 3,000 a year, promises delivery in six weeks. Price: $6,200, plus...
Early next morning a Democratic League man hopped into the green Chrysler sedan inherited last year from departing Communist Negotiator Chou Enlai, and drove to the Soviet Embassy. He entered the Embassy with an interesting box, came back to his car without it. Fledgling plainclothesmen got their ears scorched when they reported his visit. "Ai ya!" groaned a Chinese detective superintendent, "Why didn't you pretend a collision, yell, stop the car, claim, the box-anything...
Hillbilly Come-On. One afternoon when he drove into Mendenhall, seat of Simpson County, only seven courthouse loafers were on hand to greet him. To drum up a crowd, his nephew, Cason Rankin, hooked up a loudspeaker in the Congressman's black Buick sedan, toured the town playing hillbilly recordings. But half an hour's driving netted only three more shirtsleeved listeners. John Rankin brushed back his mane of stringy yellow hair, flung out his arms and shouted...