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Every Sunday after the midday meal, millions of West German parents take to sidewalks, the slopes of nearby hills, or the 75,000 miles of marked paths in the federal republic's tidily tended forests. Side by side, Mercedes and motor bike repose in the parking lot; for a few brief hours, worker and industrialist, Cabinet minister and cabinetmaker are equal and often indistinguishable-clad (as are their wives) in sensible shoes, sturdy capes and shapeless hats. Toddlers are carried. Teen-agers desert friends and transistor radios. The whole family trudges, pausing now and then for a spell...
...Alexander Calder who really put movement into art," says W.J.H.G. Sandberg, former director of Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum. The affable American's Circus of 1926 was an adult toy, perhaps, but his wind-and motor-driven mobiles that followed in the '30s became the first recognized aerial expressions of art in motion. Giacometti's Suspended Ball of 1931, Brancusi's Fish on a rotating pedestal of 1926, Thomas Wilfred's lumias of the 1930s with swimming projections of colored light-all these were what Watt's apocryphal teakettle was to the steam turbine...
...launched their mourned leaders seaward in great ships. What funeral rites should assist a leather-jacketed motorcycle chieftain of California's hell-raising Hell's Angels to his grave? The problem arose last week after James T. Miles, 30, died in a head-on collision between his motor cycle and a truck in Oakland, Calif...
...Yorkers took to their feet, trudging in refugee-like lines over rainswept streets and across the great bridges that span the East River between Manhattan and the other boroughs. Secretaries hiked 50 blocks to work; men felt the twinge of leg muscles long unused. People took to motor scooters, bicycles and, in at least one case, a horse. Many drove their cars into the city-too many. Though most of them generously picked up neighbors or strangers along the way, they often wound up stalled together for hours in massive traffic jams that surpassed anything that even car-glutted...
Angering the Competition. The principal product of the Guayama refinery, however, will be 24,800 bbl. daily of motor fuel for U.S. East Coast markets, in which Phillips is expanding. Since all oil imports are under quota, a presidential proclamation was required to enable Phillips to ship oil products from Venezuela to Puerto Rico. Other oil companies will have to cut their import allotments to accommodate Phillips. Result: the two-year period in which the Interior Department studied the Phillips-Puerto Rican application produced a bitter oil-industry battle...