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...cost: aluminum for engines costs about three times as much as grey iron. Yet many engineers are coming around to the theory that costs even out in the long run, since aluminum costs less to machine and process. Moreover, it has many other advantages-no chip, no pit, no peel, no rust. But the biggest advantage of all is in performance. In recent tests with two cars identical except for a difference of 400 lbs. in weight, the lighter car accelerated and decelerated from 20% to 25% faster. In terms of gas consumption G.M.'s aluminum-engined 1960 model...
President George Washington wasted eight days coaching over nearly impassable roads from his home in Mount Vernon to the capital at Philadelphia, but 33rd President Eisenhower hardly changed his office routine, indeed barely got time to lean back and peel an orange, as he went about the Eastern Seaboard on air-age conveyances. Only a few days after he okayed purchase of three Boeing jet 707s for future Administration use on long trips, he pushed the sophisticated reciprocating engine up another notch in utility to Presidents. The helicopter, he proved last week, can be more than his traffic-jumping airport...
...space fever renews itself before daylight each morning, when long necklaces of auto headlights form along the highways that lead to Cape Canaveral's heavily guarded gates. Security guards check for pink windshield stickers, examine badges, wave the privileged on to their work. Construction workers peel off toward half-finished launching facilities. Others spike off to hangars, laboratories, snack wagons and a hundred separate sites. At the lox plant, they run the machinery that daily chews up a chunk of damp Florida air and transforms it into 75 tons of liquid oxygen...
...greying, handsome man, a novelist by trade, sat in a New Jersey inn, talking amiably with two companions and sipping his favorite drink, an ice-cold, bone-dry martini with lemon peel. An animated party of four came in and sat down at the next table. The handsome man shifted uneasily. Beads of sweat pebbled his forehead as he stole a shy half-glance at the strangers. Abruptly, like a swimmer surfacing for a gasp of air, he got up, grabbed his drink and pivoted toward an untenanted dining area in the rear, taking his tablemates in tow with...
Minute Postcards. Owners of Polaroid Land Cameras, which produce snapshots in one minute, can now turn the pictures into postcards by affixing them to Polaroid Postcarders. One side of a Postcarder has standard message and address sections, the other has a peel-off backing over an adhesive surface. Cost for a package...