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...dollar-conscious consumers was something much plainer, the Chevrolet. Though little changed in body style, the Chewy had an automatic transmission (a version of the Dynaflow), the first in the low-priced field, and a new engine delivering 105 h.p. Chewy hoped to put the "Power Glide" automatic shift on 20% of its cars this year. The price: $150 extra...
...late truckmate ("Best bloke ever lived, that's all"). Snowy begins the trip with another British soldier, soon picks up an American deserter, then a beautiful Italian princess, later some university professors and their families. Before Rosie reaches her destination, she appears to have effected a major southward shift of the Italian population...
...spring of 1948, Douglas hitched a loudspeaker to a jeep station wagon and started out across the state. Talking wherever a crowd would gather, beginning at factory gates at 7 a.m., stopping at every gas station and crossroads café, winding up again at another factory for the midnight shift, he covered 40,000 miles, made more than 1,100 speeches in six months...
Back to Business. Next day, Batavia got back to business and the new government began to take over the scores of administrative departments which serve the 3,000 islands of the Indonesian archipelago. For the time being, only the top jobs would shift to Indonesian hands. The head of the government's biggest bureau, the 1,500-man Ministry of Economics, introduced the Dutch staff to its new Indonesian boss and told the Dutchmen: "Now, you must try to be officials without being officials...
...usually the case on Invitation, the discussion was friendly, adult and casual. "We try to make it sound like conversation, not a debate," says Producer Crothers, "as though the listener had sneaked up on the men at a cocktail party and overheard them." Nowadays the panel speakers shift every week, but back in 1940, when Invitation started as an offshoot of the "Great Books" program of Stringfellow Barr, former president of Maryland's St. John's College, there was a permanent panel. It was abandoned, says Crothers, because after a few months "everyone had explored everyone else...