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...company might try to combat Big Three competition by following along with the planned-obsolescence idea. Since the compact-car buyer is a discerning soul, he is not happy with yearly model changes. What he desires is gradual improvement where improvements count: in engine efficiency, better braking, lighter weight, lowered drag, better suspensions, readability...
...Lighter by 30 Ibs. and paste-white after three months in prison, Alan Robert Nye, 32, of Whiting, Ind., this week faced a three-man revolutionary tribunal in Havana and pleaded not guilty to a charge of plotting to assassinate Fidel Castro. The Korean war pilot (U.S. Navy) heard the prosecution charge that he was brought to Cuba last December by Dictator Batista's Chief of Staff, given a telescopic-sighted rifle, sent into the hills to hunt down Castro for $100,000. Nye said that he accepted the assignment only as a means of joining Castro...
...human folly, and laughter. Since the first two pass our comprehension, we must do what we can with the third." Urbane Satirist Menen has siphoned laughter out of stuffy pukka sahibs (The Prevalence of Witches') and sacred Hindu myths (The Ramayana). Rarely has his comic touch been lighter or more impolite than in this current spoof on science...
Nylon Rifle. Remington Arms will put on sale a .22-cal. rifle made of nylon except for a steel barrel and bolt assembly. The rifle is one-third lighter than present models, is more durable and not hurt by water. Price...
...best thing about TIME is that it doesn't take all that "urgent and thought-compelling" twaddle so seriously that there isn't room for a little news about the lighter things in life. I sure liked that page-and-a-half spread you gave to that scandal in France about those rich people trying to knock one another off. Oh, those French, eh, Mr. Auer! And I can hardly wait to see how TIME covers that other scandal that broke last week in France about the government officials and the nude dancing girls. I guess the issue...