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...remote as ever, but dropping faster and faster through its gravitational field was a small, alien object: a metal sphere blazoned with the hammer and sickle of the Soviet Union. Perhaps no one will ever know what happened when it hit. It may have dug an invisibly small crater among the natural meteor craters on the moon's scarred face. Perhaps it splashed a brief fountain of dust. Whatever it did, the moon could no longer serve as a symbol of unreachability. Man had sent an object from the earth and pitted its virgin surface...
Giacomo Manzu, 50, is the great modern throwback to the Renaissance. Trained as an ornamental plasterer and raised among the Renaissance sculptures of his native Italy, Manzu loves the old. His famed Cardinals are still as shellfish in their enclosing robes and miters, but Manzu himself denies that they are conservative-he calls them "my abstractions...
...used, arguing that it would bail out the steel companies, which could resume production just when the pressure (from shortages) to settle is greatest. In 80 days they could build up production enough to satisfy some industry needs and face another strike. But there is a growing feeling among rank-and-filers that, Taft-Hartley or no, the union is already licked and will have to settle on the industry's terms...
Studebaker-Packard Corp. raised the roof last week: to weather the hot competition coming from the Big Three's compact cars, Studebaker rolled out a Lark that is the only convertible among the 1960 U.S. compact cars, and the smallest (wheelbase: 108½ in.) and lowest-priced (factory list: $2,176, plus extras, taxes, transport) of all the U.S. soft-top models. Studebaker also added a four-door, eight-passenger Lark station wagon that will list for $2,175, not counting taxes and transport. Optimistically, President Harold Churchill forecast that Studebaker's market will wing...
...less gas, sell for about $225 less than the cheapest Chevy when it goes into the showrooms Oct. 2. Factory list prices begin at $1,860 for the four-door model, drop to $1,810 for a two-door that will be introduced early next year. Among the optional gear: automatic transmission ($135), gasoline heater (under $70). Counting taxes, transport and extras, a Corvair four-door will deliver in Manhattan for about $2,400, about the same as British and German imports in the Corvair's size and horsepower range...