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...Friday afternoon, a motor hearse rolled to the ornate House of the Trade Unions. There, where Lenin lay in state in 1924, the neatly arrayed remains of Joseph Stalin were placed. In sallow, impassive dignity, Stalin's body lay in the glare of spotlights, the huge grey head resting on a silken pillow, the chest of his simple, military tunic adazzle with medals and ribbons; others glinted on a pillow laid at the foot of his bier. Through the great hall floated the sickish scent of massed flowers, from Peking and all the conquered capitals of Eastern Europe, from...
Runabout. At Regensburg, Germany, Willy Messerschmitt, who designed Germany's famed fighter planes in World War II, began turning out a three-wheeled, 342 pound automobile on a motor scooter chassis. Only 9½ ft. long, 48 in. wide and 47 in. high, it can do 40 m.p.h., run 75 miles on a gallon of gas. The Kleinwagen has two seats in tandem, no space for baggage. Price: about...
Married. Horace E. Dodge Jr., 52, motor millionaire; and Gregg Sherwood (real name: Dora Mae Fjelstad), 29, platinum blonde ex-showgirl; he for the fifth time, she for the second; at his mother's 75-room seaside mansion in Palm Beach...
...pump, which drives the water to be heated through the atomic reactor, can have no protruding shafts, which might cause leaks of deadly radioactive material. Pump and motor combined are "canned" inside the water pipe...
...swelling chorus of businessmen demanding a reduction in U.S. tariffs the voice of Henry Ford II was added this week. The U.S., said Ford Motor Co.'s boss in a speech scheduled before the Inland Daily Press Association, "can and should step forth boldly and lead the free world toward freer trade" by elimination of all tariffs and other restrictions. In turn, "if foreign countries want American private capital, it's fair to ask that they act in a way which will encourage the American investor" by "guarantees against expropriation of property and the elimination of inequitable double...