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...Peking last week. CHAIR MAN MAO ENJOYS A SWIM IN THE YANGTZE, read the identical headlines. At an annual swimming meet on July 16 in the city of Wuhan, the 72-year-old "greatest leader of the people of the world" had trod "firmly" down the gangplank of a motor launch in the Yangtze, "with glowing ruddy cheeks and in buoyant spirits." There, in the presence of "tens of thousands," Mao Tse-tung swam and floated nine miles downstream in 65 minutes, talking politics at times with a provincial party secretary and even pausing to give a young lady swimmer...
...cartridge has become the most significant innovation in the $830 million-a-year record market since the advent of the LP in 1948. Four-track stereotape players for autos, sold mostly on the West Coast, have been available for about five years. Not until last September, when the Ford Motor Co. began offering a new eight-track player and cartridge-which crams up to 80 minutes of music on half the length of tape used in a four-track cartridge-did stereotapes begin booming. Lear Jet Corp. and RCA Victor developed the new cartridge and player. The eight-track sets...
...same sort of report, published by the American College of Surgeons, could have come from any city in the country. The number of motorcycles and motor scooters on U.S. roads has doubled in three years to a current total of more than 1,250,000. Sales are still accelerating, and the number of accidents is mounting faster than the number of vehicles. Deaths increased from 882 in 1963 to 1,118 in 1964 to 1,580 last year, and are expected to reach 1,900 this year. The fatality rate for cycle riders and their "buddy seat" pals is five...
...surviving brother, the work has finally been cast in full scale-some 1,155 lbs. of bronze bulking 5 ft. tall-and is currently on view in Paris' Galerie Louis Carré. The gallery has wisely fulfilled the sculpture's kinetic dynamism by exhibiting it on a motor-driven turntable. This would no doubt have pleased Duchamp-Villon. "The power of the machine imposes itself on us," he wrote in 1913, "and we can no longer even conceive of humans without it. We are shaken in a strange manner by the rapid friction of beings and things...
...more than a year, Ford Motor Co. engineers have been dropping Thunderbirds and Mercurys nose-first from cranes; they have also run cars into concrete barriers, then watched the crack-ups on stop-action movie screens. As a result of the lessons learned, Ford President Arjay Miller announced in Detroit last week that some 1969 models will have collapsible, impact-absorbing front ends as a safety feature...