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This month Honda announces production of a 500-cc. midget car that will be available in Japan, Europe and the U.S. Early next year, the company plans to enter its 5800 sports car in the U.S. and European markets. Convertible and hardtop versions of the S-800, a small, four-cylinder, four-carburetor model that resembles the Austin-Healey Sprite, will sell for slightly less than $2,000 in the U.S. The pint-sized Honda 500 will cost about $1,100, will compare with British Motors' Mini Minor and the Fiat 600. Both the 5800 and the 500 derive...
...Norwood makes a deal with Grady Fring the Kredit King to drive an Olds 98 to New York, expenses paid and $50 clear. Fortified by a bottle of NuGrape and a nickel pack of Nabs, he sets out on a jocular junket that confronts him with the second shortest midget in show business, a hypnotized chicken, his future wife, and a climactic offer of employment as "night man at the worm ranch." If this is vaudeville, it is vaudeville with a vengeance. In a dry, wry Arkansas accent, Portis gently tells the home truth about the Norwoods of the world...
Lacking a tiger in its tank, Sucker manages pretty well with a sly fox named Louis de Funès, full of snarly good humor as the high-class crook in charge of plots. After his Bentley has bested Bourvil's midget Citroën in a two-car tie-up, De Funès decides that he has found the dupe to drive a certain white Cadillac convertible from Naples to Bordeaux. More than hot, the Cad is a crime wave on wheels; its bumpers are full of gold, its fenders are full of heroin, its battery contains...
...bomb rested, half shrouded by its own grey parachute, on a steep 70° slope on the ocean floor. The danger was that it might slip farther down the incline into the craggy depths of a 3,000-ft. undersea valley in which the midget submarines could not maneuver. With that consideration in mind, Rear Admiral William S. Guest, 52, commander of the 15-vessel Task Force 65, put into action Plan Charlie to recover the unarmed 20-megaton weapon...
Bronzes & Bullets. Now that he had sold himself, he hired a pressagent to ballyhoo him as a "Bantam Barnum," a "Mighty Midget" and the "Basement Belasco." He went on to produce eleven Broadway shows (including Jumbo, Carmen Jones'). He opened a restaurant and a nightclub (Billy Rose's Diamond Horseshoe). He ran the Aquacade at the 1939-40 World's Fair. He became a syndicated columnist, peddling a unique amalgam of show-biz snappy sayings and schmalz. He collected art the way other people collect neckties-he once tried to buy the Metropolitan Museum...