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Picking Up Speed. Detroit's automakers seemed to be picking up speed after a slower-than-expected start in 1957's auto market. While no company has announced its quarterly earnings, gains over 1956 were freely predicted. Auto dealers reported a surprising boomlet at the end of June, which pushed sales for the month to 544,750 units and the best figure since March 1956. The June comeback boosted overall sales for the first six months of 1957 to within 2.3% of the 1956 mark, after they had been 5% behind at the end of the first quarter...
...centuries since the death of its founder in 483 B.C., Buddhism has had little direct impact on the Christian West. Today, however, a Buddhist boomlet is under way in the U.S. Increasing numbers of intellectuals-both faddists and serious students-are becoming interested in a form of Japanese Buddhism called...
...ring for the Republican presidential nomination. The general has repeatedly declared himself no candidate, a position he emphasized again last week by withdrawing his name from the New Hampshire primary (see above). Nor does it mean that a professionally organized MacArthur boom, or even boomlet, is under way. The G.O.P.'s state and local pols have eyes fixed on the Taft-Eisenhower duel; most of them are inclined to discount MacArthur's chances. The news, however, is that far more pro-MacArthur sentiment now exists than most political observers thought possible six months...
Among all the presidential campaign hats flying through the air last week was an odd furry model with a long floppy tail. It was the coonskin campaign cap of Tennessee's well-tailored Senator Estes Kefauver. The Kefauver-for-President boom was still hardly more than a boomlet. But in separate press conferences last week, two leading Democratic Senators gave the boomlet another boost. Illinois' Paul Douglas, who still wants Eisenhower for President, still hopes Harry Truman will just go quietly away, noted "increasingly favorable sentiment for Senator Kefauver." Minnesota's Fair Dealing Hubert Humphrey, who still...
Queenly Plucking. Patiently, Ostrichman Rose learned all the habits and hazards of his birds.* He managed to keep his flock together, cashed in on each tiny feather boomlet as it appeared. In 1931, the Empress Eugenie hat style started a flurry in feathers. In 1947, Great Britain's Queen Elizabeth helped start the present revival by visiting Oudtshoorn, praising feathers and publicly plucking an ostrich. This year, Manhattan's Walter Florell ("the mood at the moment is to look bold") is trimming hats with Lillian Russell-sized plumes (see cut). But he has tuned them to the 20th...