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...proper Philadelphia dowager would. The Journal, tops in the field for two decades, publicly treated this lipsticked hussy with icy silence, confined its comments to catty asides. "It's fun to be challenged,'' said Editors Bruce and Beatrice Blackmar Gould, faintly amused. Their amusement turned to dismay as McCall's, some 350,000 behind the Journal in circulation in January 1959, caught up last year and soared into the lead, 6,857,677 to 6,838,282. Last week McCall's and the lady from Independence Square sharpened their claws and came out scratching...
...week, he probably would have heaved his clubs into the North Sea. Heavy tractors trundled television cameras, cables and lights all over the course. Cameramen swarmed over roughs and fairways, technicians and officials thronged the greens, and close to 5,000 Scots followed the proceedings with alternating amusement and dismay. For an 18-hole golf match between two of the world's best-Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pa., and Gary Player of South Africa-it was a whale of a Hollywood mob scene...
...years, a sure way to make any flag officer blanch in dismay has been to suggest that Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear submarine, might become Chief of Naval Operations. He never will. But in idol-smashing testimony released last week by a House subcommittee on defense appropriations, he demonstrated what a lively tour of duty he would have...
...fight was started by the rayon manufacturers in dismay over nylon's inroads into a market that rayon had dominated since it knocked out cotton tire cord after World War II. Developing a new, high-strength rayon called Tyrex, the rayon companies formed an association to promote it, even sent teams to high schools to lecture teenagers on the superiority of Tyrex over nylon. Nylon makers, led by Chemstrand Corp.. fought back not only with advertising but with price cuts. Before long, tire-cord prices dropped so sharply that the rayon makers, working on tighter profit margins, found...
...Cuba and sink it. Of the leading figures in the Congo crisis, Baker moans: "I don't know whether I'm reading names or eye charts." Baker is puzzled by the space race. That Russia was first to send a cosmonaut into space does not unduly dismay Baker. "We may not be the first to get a rocket to the moon," he says, "but we'll be the first to send foreign aid." Not the least of the enticements of space travel, Baker claims, is the fact that women on Mars have bosoms on their backs...