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Seeking a Scare. This meant a device of at least 100 kilotons (five times the power of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima), exploded neither underground nor in outer space, but probably mounted on a testing tower or dropped from a plane. It may have been a new, compact warhead for an ICBM missile like...
...seater Thunderbird, a Thunderbird sports roadster. Equipped with wire wheels and a dashboard "assist bar" for nervous passengers to hang on to, the new Thunderbird can be converted into a pseudo two-seater by slipping a fiber-glass tonneau cover over the back seat. The nation's bestselling compact, the Falcon, adds a dummy air scoop on the hood that gives the car a racier silhouette...
...judicious use of space is indeed essential, the Summit rates high. The $25 million building is tucked in neatly on a 100-ft. by 320-ft. corner of Lexington Avenue and 51st Street, has 800 rooms, 21 stories, and looks compact enough to be stored in the Waldorf lobby. It is the handiwork of Architect Morris Lapidus, whose chief triumphs are the Eden Roc and Fontainebleau hotels in Miami Beach. Thus the décor can be described as something between Bronx baroque and Mexicali modrun. A graceful, serpentine curve of the long exterior wall on 51st Street...
...Australia, G.M.-Holden's Ltd. commands 48% of the continent's car sales, while Ford's subsidiary pushed its share to 18% last year, after introducing the compact Falcon-with 94% Australian-built parts. From Australia, Ford and G.M. export throughout Southeast Asia...
Other U.S. companies are striving to catch up either by opening their own plants overseas, buying into established foreign automakers, or licensing foreign companies to assemble U.S. cars. Chrysler has begun assembling its Valiant compact in Australia, plans to do so in Argentina; it has also bought 25% of France's Simca auto works and assembles and sells Simcas in Europe and Australia. American Motors Corp. has licensed 21 foreign producers to turn out its compact Ramblers. Studebaker-Packard cars are being assembled in South America, South Africa, Belgium, Israel and Australia-in its own plants and those...