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AIRPLANE-AUTO combination will be marketed successfully within the next three years, predicts George H. Weitz, chief of CAA's experimental aircraft division. Though airplane-autos have proved commercial flops so far, Weitz believes that the increasing clutter on U. S. highways will make a sizable market for the first safe and economical plane-car that can land, fold its wings, and drive...
...internal politics of the American Legion has a curiously clinical quality: contenders for Legion power can perfect the technique of political bloodletting without having to clutter up their minds with abstruse theory, principle or policy. A Midwestern governor, one of many U.S. public officials who received Legion political training, recently recalled with a shudder: "Legion politics! That's the worst kind. They not only cut your throat the way politicians do, but they stand around and watch you gurgle...
Heads Underfoot. Sculptor Giacometti fits comfortably into this cramped clutter. Lying among the spare furnishings-a black potbellied stove, rumpled cot and banged-up chair-are strange sculptured objects: 6-ft.-tall female caryatid forms whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...
Heartbreak's strength comes partly from Director Jacques Dupont's almost matter-of-fact attention to reinforcing detail: a mustached machine-gunner tensely wetting his lips as he waits for his comrades to advance; the primitive clutter of a front-line trench. It flashes with moments of strange, sunlit beauty that almost belie the shocking truth of man diligently preoccupied with killing man. There are also lighter moments-with Gallic, wine-happy R & Rs (Rest and Recuperators) in Japan. But Director Dupont never strays far from the terrible business that carried him, the French battalion and the tens...
...after majority authorization, and a requirement of four days' notice for meetings outside Washington should insure the presence of at least several members at every hearing. And since evidence would be introduced exclusively by courtroom procedure, members would be able to prohibit the assorted mail and stolen documents that clutter committee transcripts...