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...compact 5 ft. 8 in., 170 lbs., Tokle smokes and drinks ("It hasn't hurt me yet"), credits his longevity as a jumper to his trade: "As a carpenter, I get eight hours of exercise a day." To strengthen his legs and ankles, the tireless Tokle is fond of turning a barrel on its side, hopping on top and running at full tilt while it spins beneath him ("You ought to try it sometime...
...January under last year. What is worse, the models hardest hit are the very ones that were counted on for the best sales-Dodge Dart, Plymouth and Valiant. The Dart, a big reason for Chrysler's good year in 1960, is selling poorly this year. The new Lancer compact, sold by Dodge dealers, has not caught...
...Gilbert founded and built into the nation's leading maker of scientific and educational toys, New Haven's A. C. Gilbert Co., pours forth a whole world of challenging and instructive toys that range from his famous Erector set and American Flyer scale-model electric trains to compact lessons in chemistry, biology and physics. Far more than a successful businessman (his firm now sells $13 million a year in some 50 items), Gilbert was long a revered mentor to thousands of budding young U.S. scientists. Each year thousands of boys write to New Haven about their hopes...
...shades of political outlook, from people who had voted for Kennedy in November and people who had voted against him, came a surge of praise and congratulation. Even so partisan a Republican as Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen described it as "inspiring'' and as "a very compact message of hope." Members of Washington's foreign diplomatic corps were unanimously impressed. And even the criticism seemed mild. Commented the Los Angeles Times: "He is wrong in implying the beginning comes with him, but he is right in suggesting that the perfecting of mankind is tedious and unpredictable...
...Macdonald loyally finds U.S. parodists better than Britain's best (Belloc, Chesterton, Beerbohm, Connolly notwithstanding), and the best of these in The New Yorker school (E. B. White, Wolcott Gibbs, Peter De Vries). The reason: that magazine, with its "peculiar combination of sophistication and provinciality," provides the necessary "compact cultural group." "The old lady from Dubuque," it seems, now digs Jack Kerouac...