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After centuries of tippling almost exclusively on wine, Italians are now drinking beer in mounting quantities; since 1957, their per capita consumption of beer has increased to 1½ gal. a year-not much, but enough to make a brewer's mouth water at the future prospects. To ensure a splashing welcome for his product, Oetker has prudently included a handful of leading Italian businessmen in his new venture. Prinzen Bräu's president is Dr. Giovanni Maria Vitelli, head of Turin's influential Chamber of Commerce, and among the members of the company...
...fictional episodes is by Amanda B. Recondwyth. The critics comment on the authors style of writing is "that this gal is unstoppable." The travel section features a story on the "boundless gravel grandeur of Plushwillow Park (L.I.) "The College and Careers Section offers a spoof on the peace corps, entitled "The Snuggly American," and a story on the Coca Cola junior College for Women...
...dancers on their toes for some 145 beats to the minute, in three "sets" per dance, followed by a short intermission for breath-catching and flirting. The tune can be anything with an air and a beat, better if it is something everybody knows, like Skip to My Lou Gal or Turkey in the Straw, Buffalo Gals or Darling Nellie Gray. The real trick is knowing what the caller means and picking it up fast when he sounds off with: "Bend the line and Dixie chain . . . Strip the gears and do-se-do." Or even the famed (in New England...
Married. Ingemar Johansson. 29, dimpled former world heavyweight boxing champion; and Birgit Lundgren. 25, his right-hand gal since 1954 and official fiancee since 1959; he for the second time, she for the first; in Stockholm...
...spectacular display of steam and ear-shattering sound. And since the test was concerned only with Saturn's first-stage booster, scientists were free to use the dummy upper stages for an ingenious experiment. Stored in Saturn's snout as ballast were 23,000 gal. of water weighing 95 tons. When the rocket neared the peak of its trajectory, seconds after its engines cut out, it was blown to bits on radio command. Some 65 miles above the Atlantic, the water released by the explosion spread into a giant, sun-splashed cloud of ice crystals. Below...