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Eight new Chevrolets made their showroom debut last Saturday before a large holiday crowd at Porter Square. For the occasion, the management had on hand a collection of bubble gum, balloons, and General Motors comic books which it passed out to the children, and a case of perfume for the ladies. The men got no gifts, but they did get a chance to thump the sides and probe the entrails of the new Chevrolet...
...small group of visitors failed to join in the spirit of the occasion, however, forming solemn cliques around the new cars to discuss compression ratios and transmission. These connoisseurs sustained a notible sobriety in the midst of so much bubble gum, as they added wrinkles of their own to the rigors of Chevrolet's road test. The "knee test" figured frequently in this scrutiny: the test consists of placing one knee squarely in the middle of a door panel and pressing violently inward. The metal is then judged on rebounding quality and resonance. This kind of test is necessarily performed...
...Gum in the Fire Hose. Early last week there was still hope-among Tokyo optimists, at least - that Douglas MacArthur's abortive "end-the-war" offensive had only "temporarily" been halted, that a major enemy breakthrough could be prevented. The ist Cavalry Division, aided by British and Turks, was rushed to plug the enormous gap in the Tokchon sector where the R.O.K. II Corps had been shattered. It was like trying to plug a fire hose with a wad of chewing gum. The cavalrymen were beaten back 30 miles to Sinchang, then lost the town and fell back still...
Look, Judge. Joe stood up, chewing a wad of gum nervously, but he looked directly at Judge Leibowitz. He talked out of the side of his mouth, and his words came hard and fast. "Look, judge," he said, "sending him to jail isn't going to correct conditions . . . What do you want us to do? It wasn't his fault. Not any more than it was ours. It was an accident." Joe paused, and there was a note of bitterness in his voice. "And you're not going to reform him by sending him to jail...
...prose poem to a people's hero and many of its cadenced passages are as good poetry as Sandburg has ever written. Most modern poets use a language so private that it divorces them from all but their private claques. Sandburg, as close to the crowd as chewing gum and the corner beer joint, has spoken in the crowd's lingo from the start...