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...sandy-haired David Owens, 22, of Berkeley, Calif. He lives with a German family, in a cheap room, rises at 6 a.m. and meets his partner (Mormon missionaries generally work in pairs) for an hour's study of German, Scripture and lesson plans. At 9 they take to motor scooters for three hours of in tensive house-to-house canvassing, devote the afternoon to visiting prospects referred to them by others. Shunning dating, dancing, even swimming, they spend evenings in paper work, and it is not uncommon for Mormon missionaries to put in 70 hours a week...
...keys extend into levers that make the impression on paper. Instead, the Selectric has mounted inside its case a spherical-shaped, pingpong-ball-sized metal typing element bearing all the familiar 88 alphabetical characters, numerals and punctuation symbols. When the typist strikes the keyboard, the typewriter's motor rapidly tilts and rotates the element on its axis as it moves across the paper, bringing the proper character into position for printing. The element is then rocked against ribbon and paper to print the character. This is essentially the same principle used by the Dow-Jones business-news ticker...
...world's increasing markets, the U.S. exported only 117,000 cars, little more than half the 1955 total. Detroit has come to believe that the best way to compete abroad is to build foreign cars, with foreign workers, in foreign plants. Says Henry Ford II, president of Ford Motor Co.: "If we want to share in those markets, we are going to have to do so from the inside-from their inside...
...Britain, Ford's fast-rising subsidiary, Ford Motor Co. Ltd., has become the No. 2 car seller, after British Motor Corp. (which makes Morris, Austin, M.G.). G.M.'s Vauxhall Motors Ltd. is No. 3. From their British bases, both sell widely within the Commonwealth. ¶ In West Germany, G.M.'s Opel and Ford's Taunus are outpaced only by Volkswagen, which, however, is far out front. The two subsidiaries now have the entire six-nation European Common Market open to them...
Under the friendly prodding of expert sailor "Corny" Shields, Chris-Craft, which has confined itself exclusively to "stinkpots," is considering going into the sailboat business. The leading U.S. naval architects, Sparkman & Stephens, have designed for Chris-Craft a 34-ft. fiberglass motor sailer. The new sailboat would give Chris-Craft an entry into a market even larger than the cabin cruiser trade...