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...early convert to Islam, Othman ben Affan (A.D. 574-656) has chronicled his own practice of this custom before Mohammed outlawed it. Ben Affan was burying his own daughter alive. As he was covering the child with earth, some dust was thrown up on his beard. The daughter, her arms still free, reached up to wipe the dust from her father's face; he proceeded with the grisly burial. Later, in describing the incident," he said: "It was the only time in my life that I ever shed a tear...
Kudryavka (Little Curly), the first living creature to travel around the earth through space, first barked over the Moscow radio on Oct. 27. Dressed in a custom space suit, she had already ridden a short while before that in a rocket, and had suffered no ill effects. This week she made history as the passenger in Sputnik II-also called Muttnik...
...hydraulic brakes, balloon tires, steel to replace wood and leather-brought the new buyers flocking to Detroit's door. The famed Ford model T went 19 years without a basic body change. For the Hollywood movie star or Wall Street tycoon who wanted something special, there was the custom-body shop. But even Designer Gordon Buehrig, who styled three classic U.S. cars-the Duesenberg J, the boat-tailed Auburn Speedster, the Cord 810-worked almost unnoticed. "The job was just a job," says Buehrig, today a Ford engineer. "We worked in a corner of the plant, and none...
...Statue of Liberty." Many of them were met by journalists and photographers. "My first impression of American," one refugee student relates, "was of American photographers and reporters. Their first act was to sit on the table or put their feet up. I thought this was a common American social custom...
...blending jalopy jargon with nuts-and-bolts advice, Hollywood Publisher Robert Petersen has not only rolled his Hot Rod magazine to high success in nine years, but has added five other automobile monthlies (Motor Trend, Motor Life, Car Craft, Rod & Custom, Custom Cars) to his garage. At 31, Pete Petersen is the biggest magazine owner west of the Rockies, boasts the biggest circulation (total: 1,500,000) in the automotive field, and, with a book-publishing business and a nonmechanical magazine called Teen, grosses $6,500,000 a year...