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...most feasible structure from a financial point of view appears to be an open parking deck, which could be constructed for as little as $1,000 per car according to the Development Company's estimates...

Author: By Philip M. Boffey, | Title: Parking: Harvard's Perennial Problem | 9/25/1957 | See Source »

...long-awaited Edsel on display this week. The first new "Big Three" car since Ford brought out the Mercury in 1938 is a recognizable Ford product without radical jetlike fins or bomb-shaped bumpers. Like Ford and Mercury, it presents a squarish appearance with a flat rear deck, horizontal taillights that flare up and out, an oval, uncluttered grille reminiscent of the elegant Cord of the '30s. Under its hood is a burly engine turning up 303 h.p. in the less expensive models, 345 h.p. in the top-priced line. Inside is the ultimate in pushbutton driving-a drive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Newest Car | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...ship, a 30-ft. auxiliary ketch, with his own hands on the lawn of his home in Swampscott, Mass. Two years ago, he coaxed the Fiddler's Green as far as Port Said before an attack of jaundice sent him home by freighter, his ship lashed ignobly on deck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Long Voyage Home | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

...China"-men who under the Nationalists had been schoolteachers, civil servants, army and police officers. They were all together by prearrangement. They had complained to their bosses that the three smaller junks in which they usually traveled made them seasick. As some of the 35 lazed on the sunny deck, one of them engaged the Pak Tang's armed Communist guard (there is always one aboard) in a game of chess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HONG KONG: The Cruise of the Pak Tang | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

...even tell him when a slight change of course or altitude has found a more favorable wind. A common experience for Navy pilots flying with the 67 is to take off from San Diego, navigate across the continent by watching a single needle, and come down through a cloud deck to find the East Coast destination right in front of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Doppler Reckoning | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

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