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...Sloan car [Feb. 25], at least one of G.M.'s vehicles was named after its inventor: the Oldsmobile, named after Ransom Eli Olds, and first produced in 1887 as a three-wheeled, steam-powered horseless carriage. In 1900, the "Curved Dash" Oldsmobile was developed at the Olds Motor Works. It was some time later that the Oldsmobile became associated with...
...Bazaar Cover Model Sylvia, he spent hours peering into musty display cases in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Says he: "My paintings grew to be surrealist abstractions with the hint of skeletal joints expressing patterns of growth." To add motion to them, he made toylike, motor-driven robots. They jousted like a 21st century Punch and Judy show, chased tiny balls with spinning hoops in an electronic version of Alexander Calder's 1926 "Circus...
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...again objectives were confused and the Charles, caught in the middle, lost out. Since the Basin was designed promarily for recreational purposes the lock in the dam has to be opened--more frequently now than ever--for motor boats. Each lock-opening admits salt water, and the wedge of salt that gets into the basin prevents oxygen from circulating throughout the water to treat the sewage. And so the Charles remains polluted...
...there they were last week, the Brooklyn Eagles and the New Haven Sentinels, playing for the title in the dead of winter in just about the unlikeliest stadium imaginable: the dining room of the Fairfield (Conn.) Motor Inn. And on a gridiron that was precisely 1 ft. 7½ in. long and 1 ft. 2½ in. wide...