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...Lambretta motor scooter buzzed past the cops, parked across the street from the embassy. Moments later, a Renault Fregate sedan drove up, pulled up to the curb about four yards from the building. The driver got out, complained about having motor trouble. When a cop told him to move on because he was blocking traffic, he opened fire with a pistol. The Lambretta rider also began blasting away. The Saigon cops shot back; the car-driving terrorist was riddled, and the scooter rider fled for his life. One policeman fell, wounded in the stomach. Hearing the gunfire, embassy workers hurried...
...Latvian Flyer Herberts Cukurs took part in Latvia's freedom battles against the Bolsheviks from 1918 to 1920. Mr. Cukurs was like the American Lindbergh in aviation history. He built his own plane from one old motor of automobile. He was a great patriot all his lifetime, and it's hard to believe that he exterminated 30,000 Jews in Latvia...
Though under orders to make the products simple and inexpensive, Moulinex researchers have also come up with some important technological advances. The latest: an asynchronous motor for appliances that does not cause static interference in radios and TV sets...
Last week six brothers named Kondogouris moved to emulate Hephaestus and restore the vehicular glory that once was Greece's. Their family-owned National Motor Co. of Athens selected a site in the port city of Patras, where it will build a factory in September, hire nearly 1,000 workers and begin production before year's end of a three-wheeled utility truck called the "Pully," designed by Fiat. Their initial production goal: Hephaestus' 20 vehicles a day. So many foreign orders have already been received that the Kondogouris brothers have earmarked the 6,000 vehicles they...
...technicians will be able to assemble a quartet of the Air Force's versatile new Titan IIIC rockets. When one is finished and checked, a pair of railroad locomotives will pick it up between them and lug it to the next building down the line, the SMAB (Solid Motor Assembly Building). At this point, solid fuel motors of varying degrees of thrust will be strapped onto the sides of the liquid-fueled Titan...