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...other member: Dr. Marjorie Mills Porter), reported that "tobacco smoking is unquestionably and significantly related to increased lung-cancer incidence" and also that "heightened lung-cancer rates in every smoking category are further sharply increased for suburban Cincinnati men traveling 12,000 miles or more a year in motor traffic...
...challenge of guided missiles last week lured Ford Motor Co. The company set up Aeronutronics Systems Inc., a new subsidiary incorporated in Delaware, built around a nucleus of 30 top scientists and engineers formerly organized as Systems Research Corp. of Los Angeles...
...university positions filled elsewhere by paid help: waiting on table, washing dishes, begin office boy or librarian, etc. . . . At any rate, whether rich or poor, whether professor or student, all have the same clothes, the same leisure, and the same automobile--which costs, second hand, as much as a motor scooter...
...John Nevin Bauman, 57, moved into the presidency of White Motor Co., replacing Robert F. Black, 66, who continues as chairman and chief executive officer. "Nev" Bauman joined the truck manufacturer 34 years ago; with a master's degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, he worked a while as an engineer, then found his niche in sales. A relaxed, persuasive talker, he kept selling and rising, and when Black came in to revive the sick company in 1935, he made Bauman sales vice president. Together the two men hiked White's sales from $20 million...
Priests in Italy, according to a Vatican report, currently own 30,850 motor scooters, and in terms of sacraments and good works, the average priest's efficiency has climbed to about 3,000% over that of his road-trudging 19th century predecessor. Another straw in this high wind is the decline of the more introverted Benedictines and foot-slogging Franciscans in favor of the fast-moving Jesuits, whose high-octane practicality thrives on the motor-scooter age. Pope Pius XII has been a longtime friend of automotion; last fall he called for "greater and greater speed to the glory...