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...Moppet Motorcar. At the American Toy Fair in Manhattan, the Ideal Toy Corp. displayed a motorcar with a Fiberglas body for moppets. The car is 62 in. long, 30 in. wide, is powered by a six-volt battery and has a top speed of 5 m.p.h. Price: around...
...Downs. The Glasgow starters, after crossing the Channel by ferry from Folkestone, had better weather luck. British Motorcar Manufacturer Sidney Allard, along with Veteran Driver Guy Warburton, made good enough time to stop for two warm meals: steak and chips at Liège, bacon and eggs at Amsterdam. They hit the swirling snow between Le Puy and Valence soon after plows had cleared the way. They also passed a stalled Allard driven by Allard's wife Eleanor, in the race with her two sisters. Shouted Allard: "Are you all right?" Shouted Mrs. Allard: "No!" This bit of information...
...rushed to the defense of obscurantism with some obscuration of his own. "To ask why James Joyce didn't write Ulysses less obscurely is a non-question," he declaimed. "It is equivalent to asking why a tree isn't a rock or why a motorcar isn't a horse." Toynbee did admit that some literary motorcars should try to be more like horses. "When Auden writes, 'Gabriel-I didn't mean to let that name out,' or when Miss Sitwell writes of 'Emily-colored hands,' they are clearly cheating," he said...
Last week, there was more bad news for the union, good news for motorcar buyers. Because the B.L.S. index had declined 1.6 points, G.M. announced that it was lopping another 2? off the wages of 290,000 hourly-paid workers, and $10 off the quarterly pay of 72,000 salaried employees. As it had done before, G.M. simultaneously cut the prices of its cars-from $10 on Chevrolets to $40 on the most expensive Cadillacs. But the union no longer liked the double-edged sword. It announced last week that when the G.M. contract expires in May, it will wash...
...Three miles to the south in Bethlehem, Christmastide promises to be sad and bitter. The village where Christ was born is jammed with Arab refugees; 55,000 hungry, homeless, hopeless outcasts of war live in an area that normally supports 12,000. The one good road (10 minutes by motorcar) to Jerusalem is in Israeli hands; the only other road is hardly more than a tortuous trail through the desolate Judean hills...