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Those words of Lord Kelvin, the famous British physicist, are carved in stone above the entrance to the Detroit headquarters of American Motors Corp. American was certain that it had thought of a better way when it led the massive consumer shift to compact, economy cars in the late 1950s. It is less certain today. For the past two years, affluent consumers have been moving up to larger, more luxurious cars, and American's sales and profits have been steadily declining. Last week, after Detroit's Big Three had all reported record earnings in the first quarter...
...also complained that HEW ignores the clear mandate of Brown vs. Board of Education, the famous 1954 decision outlawing segregation in the schools, when it allows systems to desegregate only four grades at a time without having to offer any reason for delay...
...including intimate views of Mars made by infra-red light and by radar. A single orbiter will be able to chronicle an entire cycle of the Martian seasons, watching the growth of vegetation (if it really is vegetation) and mapping the fleeting details that were once interpreted as the famous Martian "canals," which are now thought to be optical illusions. It can measure the density of the planet's atmosphere by dropping a small object and watching how it falls...
...clerk named Joy Morton, who joined the firm in 1879, owned it by 1885. Morton found salt deposits in nearby Michigan, began producing his own supply, gave the company his name and remained president for 45 years. He also approved Morton's advertising "umbrella girl," probably the most famous female connected with salt since Lot's wife...
...junk sculptor's father. He disappears, and the sculptor searches the city, but fails to find Goldstein, or even to get a fix on his own identity. Instead, the sculptor falls in with Novelist Nelson Algren, who is interviewed at home among portraits of relatives, nudes and famous boxers. To raise everyone's low spirits, a pair of Manhattan abortionists (Severn Darden and Anthony Holland) are flown in to minister to the sculptor's girl friend. In a campy comedy sequence played for somewhat more than it is worth, they debate the merits of Leonardo da Vinci...