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...cushion of air, provide rapid transportation between cities that are too close for economic air travel. Berlin & Co. expects to test the first no-wheel experimental model by year's end. If it works well, it could be the first to break through the 200-m.p.h. barrier beyond which conventional trains encounter such friction and air resistance that they have trouble staying on the rails. Along similar lines, Ford Motor Co. has devised a model of a cigar-shaped vehicle dubbed the Levacar, which runs 300 m.p.h. along guide rails on a film of air forced through the perforated...
Trouble in Paradise represents a movie trend in the early thirties devoted to making the cinema a truly international art, despite the language barrier imposed by sound. The action takes place in France and Italy with much of the native language left untranslated. Lubitsch was a German director who had just moved to Hollywood, which explains the remarkable precision that organizes the lavishness in this film. The entirely American cast lends a flavor of New World comment on the European scene. This international cooperation in moviemaking was not to be seen again until very recently (Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt...
...Foyt, who is equally adept in stock cars, sports cars and Indianapolis roadsters, won $250,000 in 1964. Another field is that led by Art Arfons, who hit 600 m.p.h. in his jet-powered Green Monster at Bonneville last October, now has his sights set on breaking the sound barrier-on land. Arfons has his hero too-Jimmy Clark-and at the Indianapolis 500, he was right there, one of the first in the line of well-wishers waiting to greet Clark after his victory. "How do you like that!" said the puzzled Scot. "This chap goes 600 m.p.h...
...massive steel-dust stallion" described by Blackfoot Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance. When his herd was corraled, the stallion went mad with fury and frustration. He murdered two other young stallions, fought off a dozen men with rawhide lariats, climbed over a seven-foot fence, smashed through a barrier of logs, charged into the open prairie, met up with eight horses, slaughtered them all-and went right on slaughtering his own kind. Till the day he died he was a four-footed psychopath...
...like Bad Neuenahr, Baden-Baden, Travemünde, Bad Kissingen, and Garmisch-Partenkirchen, even though the crowds are overwhelmingly big-city businessmen, secretaries, clerks and housewives, who go home peaceably after they have lost $10 or $15 in an evening. Protests the Protestant weekly, Christ and World: "The last barrier against the burning German gambling fury used to be the entrance rules. Now one can get in if he earns $200 a month and exhibits a certain chic-which may only mean wearing a necktie." Adds Von der Groeben with obvious relief: "We haven't had a scandal since...