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...cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home sound-movie camera, 19) paper clothes, 20) self-lighting cigarettes, 21) a pocket-size phonograph, 22) a gyroscopic stabilizer for hand-held cameras and binoculars...
...emerald green ticket is doughty John Francis Kennedy, 55, a onetime stock clerk and WPA ditch digger whose name did him no harm in winning the maximum three terms as state treasurer (salary: $11,000). Now he wants to be Governor, and has at least a nominally clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral...
Iowa's Governor Herschel Loveless and Kansas' Governor George Docking trod the garden path to Jack's suite at the Biltmore, ready to ditch their own favorite-son commitments in time to throw their delegates onto the Kennedy train. But Loveless had heard rumors that Minnesota's Orville Freeman might be the chosen one, and suggested that the whole vice-presidential business be dropped so he could concentrate on running for the U.S. Senate. Jack Kennedy advised Loveless, who is 49, to keep himself in readiness. "It has to be a Midwesterner, Herschel," said Jack. "Just...
Doggone. Still four strokes behind Australia's Nagle at the end of the final day's first nine holes, Arnold Palmer summoned his strength for a last-ditch effort. He birdied the 13th, gained a stroke. As Nagle faltered, Palmer came to the Road Hole-and overshot the green with his second stroke. But he pitched back to within 4 ft. of the pin, calmly canned his putt for-at long last-a birdie...
...leftover contour maps and aerial photographs), nine West German scientists and engineers settled down to write detailed reports on a daring project to convert the Qattara into a mammoth new power project. First suggested by the British more than 30 years ago, the idea is to dig a ditch from the Mediterranean to within nine miles of the Depression. Thence a tunnel would be bored under the rocky escarpment that rises along the Depression's northern rim. Emerging from the tunnel, the water would drop down the cliff into turbines to generate 2.7 billion kilowatt hours of electricity...