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...bought an amphibious jeep in Maryland, named her Half Safe, tuned her up, told his wife Elinore to climb aboard, and headed for Canada. After four false starts he got to Montreal. Two years later he was ready to tool down the roads at a gay clip, and when he hit the seashore he kept right on going−splashing toward the Azores...
With his market-research business going at a brisk clip, Gilbert decided to step up to a Gallup, canvassing the blue-jeans set for its views on politics, manners, smoking, necking, military service, family quarrels, juvenile delinquency. In his newspaper debut, Gilbert reported on a political survey: "If today's teen-agers could vote next November, they would favor Eisenhower over Stevenson by more than 2 to 1." Forthcoming findings...
...half production will be down, but, barring a prolonged strike (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), should still total 54 million tons, making 117 million tons, the same as last year's peak. Construction, spurred by the great expansion in commercial building, was going along at a $44.5 billion-per-year clip, ahead of the 1955 record by $1.5 billion despite the lag in housing starts. New plant and equipment investment was running 22% in front of 1955. The electronics industry was heading for a $6.8 billion year, 8% ahead of 1955; factory sales of television sets probably will mount...
...record industry. On the market for nine weeks, Columbia Records had shipped some 200,000 LP recordings of the show (list price: $4.98) by the end of last week, and orders were coming in at a joyous rate of some 10,000 a day-or at about the clip of a good-selling pop single. Equally gratifying to showfolk was the advance order for two versions, single LP and big (3 LP) album, of Broadway's latest hit musical. The Most Happy Fella, which, at more than $500,000, was even bigger than My Fair Lady...
...gold stripes on his sleeve, barges through the door at 31 knots. This freighter-shaped (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) admiral, his ties fast to the old Navy and all its traditions, is plunging ahead in a new and astonishing naval era at the same hell-for-weather clip described by a destroyer shipmate from the Solomons Slot: "It's always been the same. All boilers on the line, superheaters cut in. Arleigh Burke...