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...prepare young Mohammed for power, Reza Shah relentlessly pushed him into the "manly sports," in 1931 abruptly packed him off (aboard a Russian cruiser) to La Rosee school in Switzerland. A U.S. schoolmate recalls that the experience was something of a shock all around. Striding into the school lounge, the young prince announced: "When I enter a room, everyone rises." His fellow students merely stared at him in polite amazement. In time, Mohammed won a kind of plebiscite from them by getting himself elected captain of the school soccer team...
...look to its 1961 line. The 1961 Lark will have a lower hood line, and the horsepower of its standard six-cylinder engine will be hiked from 90 to 112 (lack of power in the sixes was a major owner complaint). The company has also added the Lark Cruiser to the line. Designed to compete with the new luxury compacts, it has a iSo-h.p. V-8 engine, is 4 in. longer than the standard Lark, has a plush interior and dual headlights...
...forth, adding extra schedules. Happiest of the displaced commuters were the yachtsmen, who found an excuse to make their weekend seagoing pleasure the necessity for a business day. When the strike began, a Manhattan shirt salesman named J. Stanley Aughenbaugh recruited three riders for his 26-ft. cabin cruiser. They enjoy a leisurely breakfast at sea on the way in and drink cocktails on the long voyage home. "It's so much fun that we may go right on commuting by sea after the strike is over," says he. The big drawback is the travel time...
With Khrushchev away touring Austria, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan and his lieutenants in the Kremlin dithered for ten days over what to do about the downed RB-47-For reasons best known to themselves, they said nothing. In fact, they sent a cruiser out to play a grisly farce of helping the U.S. and Norwegian air forces look for the survivors...
Though a Soviet cruiser radioed last week that it was joining the search, U.S. military men wondered whether the SAC plane was yet another victim of the cold war's silent battle in the skies...