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...rate of 50 a minute, 120,000 people swarmed into Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria last week to inspect General Motors' annual road show, the Motorama for 1955. On display were more than 100 exhibits, and, as usual, the stars were G.M.'s cars of the future. But this time there was a difference. In past years the dream cars were almost all flashy sports models; this year they looked as if they might be next year's production models. Pontiac, for instance, featured the Strato-Star, a six-passenger hardtop; Oldsmobile showed off its Delta...
...most Frenchmen tax evasion is an instinct, and to some a career. When the tax collector comes to inspect his house, his books and his way of life for an estimate of his income, the practiced, big-time evader sends his new American car to the country, brings down his shabbiest furniture from the attic, gives the servants the day off, and greets the collector in a borrowed suit...
...years Thomas Manners, 52, helped to record the inexorable passage of time in London's sprawling la^ courts. As a clock mechanic in the Ministry of Works, it was his duty to wind, inspect and keep on time the 800 clocks scattered throughout the great building. One day last week. Manners climbed the stone stairs of the tall main tower to tend the intricate mechanism of gears, chains and weights in the great central clock that juts out from the law courts at Temple Bar, above London's busy Strand...
Other results of this re-evaluation may include the granting of permission to keep automobiles on campus and girls in college dormitories after seven p.m. Dean of the College Godolphin said, "it is a Princeton tradition to inspect itself periodically and make changes in its program if existing facets become outdated...
...direct contrast to the strained, heavy quality of Teuckerman's moralizing is the easiness of, "Again that ominous silence in the classroom while all the minions waited breathlessly to find our which way the wind would blow. Little Dog (a teacher) asked courteously whether he might inspect my galoshes. I peeled them off, and with that slight curl to his lips he examined them. 'Very curious. Do all Americans wear these objects?' I said I believed most of them...