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...tourists seemed innocuous enough when they turned up at the Russian border on July 26. Mark I. Kaminsky, 28, of Edwardsburg, Mich, and Harvey Bennett. 26. of Bath. Me. had hired a Russian-made Volga sedan in Helsinki, and their papers stated that they planned a 30-day motor trip through Russia to brush up on their Russian. Kaminsky and Bennett had met in the Air Force in 1953; both took Russian in college. Kaminsky had landed a job as an instructor at Purdue this fall, and Bennett, fresh out of U.C.L.A., was still looking...
...from a gas turbine engine, the first ever used in a fire truck, and the latest of the expanding uses of gas turbines. Although gas turbines first came of age in turboprop planes, they promise to have a much bigger future in powering everything from road-building machinery to motor boats and refrigeration systems...
Even by Western standards, the quality of the Nigerian press is good. Despite a national literacy rate of only about 15%, the country prints 20 daily newspapers and 36 weeklies, with a circulation approaching 755,000. Copies of the leading dailies, going out by motor lorry and dugout canoe, eventually reach even the remotest regions-a much-needed unifying influence on Nigeria's mosaic of 250 tribes. And by being free itself, under the long years of benevolent British tutelage, the nation's press has taught Nigerians valuable first lessons in the meaning and the duties of freedom...
Four-Door Convertibles. Ford Motor Co. held the price line on most standard Fords but announced a lower-priced line of Mercurys. Ford moved Mercury down from the medium-priced field, once more underlining the sharp decline in sales of medium-priced cars, which have slipped from nearly 40% of the market in 1955 to only 19.6% this year. Mercury's new low-price series-the Meteor 600 and 800 -are built on the Ford chassis, use six-cylinder engines. Their factory list prices will start at about $2,150 (v. $2,389 for the lowest-priced 1960 Mercury...
...week the fire department and nearly every family in Flora (pop. 5,338), including the Chevrolet dealer, was lent a new Ford to drive. It was Ford Motor's new and novel way of introducing its 1961 Fords and Falcons...