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Connecticut's Representative Clare Boothe Luce, whose only daughter was killed in a 1944 California motor accident, spoke as one who had experienced the "heartbreak . . . of such tragedy . . . of needless and useless traffic deaths," and called on U.S. communities to regard traffic violators as "potential murderers...
...glance encountered only space. . . . Our cities in Europe are built as a protection against space. . . . But space traverses New York, animates it, stretches it. . . . The city very closely resembles the great Andalusian plains: it is monotonous if you pass through on foot, superb and ever-changing if you motor...
Into Zion. Landing in Palestine is a touch-&-go operation. The vigilant British patrol is composed of coast guard stations on 24-hour watch, motor launches and cutters, radar posts. If a ship eludes all these, the authorities may throw a smoke screen around a suspected landing place, then intensively search nearby homes and fields. "Illegals" who are caught are herded into a concentration camp. The Jewish Agency for Palestine, recognized as spokesman for world Jewry, negotiates for their release. Usually the British deduct the "illegals" from the regular quota for immigrants (1,500 a month), before freeing them...
...magic bullets") are set upon Corky, he realizes that he must make a mad dash through the body, decides that the quickest way is to get into the heart and get pumped around. So he latches on to the first blood cell that floats by and puts an outboard motor on it. At Mucosa, where he finds his cohorts blasting out a skin eruption, he embarrasses them by using the naughty, half-forbidden word, syphilis. He is reminded: "We don't mention the word among ourselves, and brother, we get around...
Died. Arthur Chevrolet, 61, last of the three Swiss brothers who made auto history in design, production and on the speedways; by his own hand (hanging); in Slidell, La. In 1909 Arthur became Motor-magnate William C. Durant's private chauffeur. Later he and Brothers Louis and Gaston, in partnership with Durant, formed the Chevrolet Motor Co., sold out four years later, just missed becoming motormillionaires...