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...well as mammon. In 1870, with only 26 million people, Italy had 150,000 priests; today there are more than 47 million Italians, but only 92,000 priests. Even so, more people were baptized in 1955; more went to Communion this Easter than ever in history. One reason : motor scooters...
...Como. As individual productivity has gone up to double prewar records, Pirelli has rewarded his workers with repeated pay boosts, pushed their real wages up 96% in eight years, v. a 28% rise in Italy's cost of living. Result: for the first time Pirelli workers can afford motor scooters, TV sets, even small cars...
...minded vacationers California's Neptuna Corp. has put on sale a house trailer that can pull up its wheels and transform itself into a houseboat. Built of steel and marine plywood, the 26½-ft.-long trailer can be powered in water by a 7½ h.p. outboard motor. It contains sleeping quarters for four, a kitchen, dining area and lavatory. The idea has proved so popular in California that Neptuna is producing five to seven trailer-boats a day. Price, without outboard motor...
Balloon Tanks. The vehicle, Rosen told the National Capital Astronomers, will be a three-stage rocket 72 ft. long and 45 in. in maximum diameter. It will have no fins, but will depend for steering on its movable rocket motor and an array of small gas-jets. The tanks holding the propellants (liquid oxygen and gasoline for the first stage, nitric acid and dimethyl-hydrazine for the second) will be thin-walled to save weight, and will have little strength when empty. When they are full and highly pressurized with helium, they will become as rigid as auto tires...
Died. William Bushnell Stout, 75, famed aviation pioneer, builder of the first (1918) internal-strut, cantilever-wing U.S. aircraft, the first commercial monoplane (in 1919) and the first all-metal plane (a Navy torpedo bomber in 1922), co-designer of the famed Ford Tri-motor ("Tin Goose") in 1925; of a heart attack; in Phoenix, Ariz...