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...stop under a glittering Gold Coast marquee that spells out "Metropole Cafe," peer into the gloom to see where all the noise is coming from. What they see looks like an alley lined with mirrors. On one side is a 110-ft.-long bar, on the other a cluster of dime-size tables. Behind the bar, on a narrow, chest-high platform, is a line of musicians, cash registers at their toes and microphones at their shoulders. The Metropole, it turns out, is one of the sturdiest Northern outposts of an obsolescent brand of music: Dixieland jazz...
Last Gesture. A crowd of 250,000 had come from all over Europe to watch les vingt-quatre heures, and thousands of them spurned the grandstands to cluster as close as they could to the dangerous turns. The cars to watch, said the wise ones, were the three Mercedes entries, for the Germans had put three months of methodical, painstaking planning into this all-out effort to prove their 3OO-SLR cars the best in the test...
...that opened with an exhortation ("The moment has come to open a new stage on the road toward a United Europe") and ended with a committee ("to study the creation of a common organization .. .") Perhaps too much had been sought too soon, sighed some good Europeans: perhaps this cluster of nations which had so often been a cockpit of war must first learn to work together as nations. Perhaps the slower way was the surer way . . . But it was not said with much enthusiasm...
Lamented Little Mo in great pontifical style: "[On] the American sport scene today . . . we're reducing sports to a cluster of numbers on a board . . . We . . . are expecting our champions to be stadium automatons, the human equivalent of the balls in a super pinball machine . . . We're watching for the numbers to light up and forgetting the play...
Suitcase Size. During the Yucca Flat tests, one baby bomb was parachuted out of a B-36, exploded at 30,000 ft. amid a cluster of other parachutes carrying little metal canisters. Probable purpose: to estimate the effect of an atomic aerial explosion, such as an antiaircraft shell or missile, on the metal parts of bombers. Another blast was exploded underground (TIME, April 4), gouging a mammoth crater and tossing a column of dirt hundreds of feet into the sky. Reportedly, the bomb was no bigger than a suitcase...