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Rarely has a plane been so popular throughout the Air Force as the F10 Voodoo, introduced to the public last week. This large (20 tons), one-man jet plane, manufactured by McDonnell Aircraft Corp.. can cruise for hours at supersonic speed (Mach...
...past quarter-century, Brazil's public life was dominated by the towering figure of Getulio Vargas, a man of flawed greatness who ruled at times as a dictator, at times as a constitutional President, but at all times as the enigmatic, subtle boss of what was essentially a one-man team. Vargas, more than most of his countrymen, dreamed the big dream of Brazil's future, but in the end he failed to cope with the urgent problems of the present. Last August, in the midst of a shattering political crisis, after a group of top-ranking generals...
Probably McCarthy's most flagrant abuse was his practice of holding one-man hearings, sitting himself almost as a judge and jury. As Dean Griswold said in his address to the Massachusetts Bar Association last winter, "There is nothing about the nature of membership in the Senate or the House of Representatives which should give each member a general commission to go through the length and breadth of the land, far from his own state or district, far from the seat of the general government, even on formal delegation to him from his House or one of its committees...
...home town of Flint in a sporty grey-blue Buick Skylark. (He had it fitted with a wrap-around windshield long before it came out on the production models.) For Vice President Earl, who has built up the greatest industrial designing organization in the world, Curtice is a one-man poll to test new ideas. The trick, says Curtice, is simply to find the proper balance between the new and the old. Says he; "We must 'create' used cars by bringing out new ones. But the new cars must not be too radical, or they will not sell...
...one-man show of Wiinblad's work last week transformed the third floor of Georg Jensen Inc., the Manhattan emporium of Scandinavian good taste, into a strange place, half fairyland and half Punch cartoon. Puckish faces were everywhere, and they bore a remarkable resemblance to the artist-bright-eyed, point-nosed, with an expression of gaiety rampant. The show included chummy centaurs bearing candles, chubby wood nymphs lurking in the shrubbery, birds that never were, sinuous but homey maidens, and friendly eggheads sprouting flowers. One Stolen Nymph, her navel flower-decked, sat sidesaddle aboard a centaur, who was chiefly...