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Epicures. In Milwaukee, records were published showing that the city's children last year swallowed gunbore cleaner, soldering flux, reducing pills, battery acid, furniture polish, lighter fluid, airplane glue, fertilizer, narcotics, tranquilizers, rubbing alcohol, hormones, after-shave lotion, camphorated oil, motor oil, iodine, toilet cleaners, laundry bleach, chromium polish, gasoline, kerosene, benzene, paint, wood alcohol, linseed oil, varnish, paint thinner, pesticides, cologne, toilet water...
...Motor scooters will be furnished for union committeemen...
CHEVROLET COMEBACK, after losing first place to Ford last year, is so strong that Chevy has produced more cars this year than all divisions of Ford Motor Co. Score: 578,181 Chevys v. 490,286 Fords, Mercurys, Edsels, Lincolns and Thunderbirds...
...lure more motorists into sports cars, British Motor Corp. this week added a low-priced stablemate to its MGs and Austin-Healeys, which now give it the biggest share ($49,500,000 a year) of the U.S. sports-car market. The new entry: Austin-Healey's Sprite. Price in Manhattan: $1,849, the cheapest British sports car (next cheapest: MG, at $2,526). Powered by a souped-up 48-h.p. version of Austin's four-cylinder A35 engine, the two-passenger Sprite does 35 miles on a gallon, accelerates from o to 70 m.p.h. in 34 seconds...
Second Term. After quelling last week's only big outburst of street fighting (20 dead) in Tripoli, the army left the road open so that the leader of the Tripoli rebels could motor unmolested for coffee and peace talks with Chief of Staff Brigadier General Fuad Shehab in Beirut. But efforts to bring the warring parties to compromise came to nothing. U.S. weapons kept arriving for Chamoun's security forces, and rebel bombs kept exploding in Beirut's marketplaces, to keep shops shut and the general strike going...