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...malicious libel" suit was brought against Hollywood's city fathers by Actor Charles Chaplin Jr. The libel claimed by young Chaplin, son of Swiss-exiled Comedian Charlie Chaplin, is, oddly, not in anything written but in the conspicuous omission of Charlie's name from a stretch of pavement that will be known as the Hollywood "Walk of Fame," bearing the inscribed names of some 1,500 Hollywood stars, past and present. Chaplin Jr. sees his father's failure to get star billing in cement as tantamount to public disgrace. At the very least, it is ingratitude...
...Dowling is credited with popularizing the all-glass door in the 1930s, is now at work on a new kind of facing brick, a vibrationless pavement breaker, 16-power binoculars that telescope to transistor-radio size...
...speeds or in different directions. When such masses meet, a belt of swirls and waves appears in the boundary between them. A slow airplane can fly through moderate CAT with hardly any unpleasantness, but for a fast-flying jet the sensation is like driving a car over a cobblestone pavement with some of the stones missing...
...pushed his way down the stretch, three cars flashed by to finish, led by his protege, 22-year-old New Zealander Bruce McLaren in another Cooper-Climax. But World Champion Jack Brabham doggedly kept going, gave one last shove at the line, collapsed on the pavement, retched, quickly recovered enough to grin: "They should have built that machine with a rope on the front...
...Think Big." Motorway madness became the big story of the week. "Drive M-1 for Murder," quipped sardonic Londoners. TV and radio announcers urgently warned drivers against parking on the pavement-or off it either, "until the earth settles...