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Next week Westinghouse faces more trouble. A House Military Operations subcommittee opens public hearings into the costly fiasco of the Navy's Demon fighters, which were powered by Westinghouse engines. Five of these swept-wing fighters made by St. Louis' McDonnell Aircraft Corp., have crashed; 21 others are lined up at St. Louis' Municipal Airport and will never fly; they will be used instead for research and mechanics' training. The remaining 29 that were made will require new jet engines, to be supplied by General Motors' Allison division, before they can be put into service...
...still capable of tongue-lashing friends and foes alike, as he did recently in The Demon of Progress in the Arts, a sharp assault on abstract painting and sculpture...
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...book, Enemy in the Mouth, published. He still thinks of alcoholism in terms of "John Barleycorn," a term that went out, if I am not mistaken, shortly after the turn of the century. I bet that Sinclair still goes to temperance lectures on the Demon Rum and plays the ballad, Father, Dear Father Come Home With Me Now on the old piano roll...
...Speed Demon. The sleek little (96¼-in. wheelbase) Arnolt-Bristol is no roaring speed demon; its 1,971-cc., six-cylinder engine kicks it along at a conservative 115 m.p.h. maximum. But in a race such as this, René argues, the driver means almost as much as the car. "Any taxi driver can win on a straightaway like Daytona Beach," says he. "At Sebring, the drivers who nurse their cars carefully through the long grind stand a chance of scoring simply because they have finished." With Wacky Arnolt himself, John Panks, general manager of Rootes Motors...