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Businessmen, scientists and engineers from 27 nations gathered in Chicago last week to see a new breed of U.S.-produced machines, so wondrously gifted and versatile that they hold the promise of a new industrial revolution. In Chicago's huge, hot International Amphitheatre and Navy Pier, the visitors excitedly inspected 11,000 gleaming new engineering marvels in twin shows: the Machine Tool Exposition and the Production Engineering Show. The new breed-and the stars of the shows-were nearly 100 machine tools of a wholly new kind, the brilliant offspring of the marriage of the automated machine...
...true Manhattan snob boasts that he never goes to the pier-fringed West Side except when sailing to Europe. In that spirit, Actress Tallulah Bankhead last week lamented to a New York Timesman that she will soon be forced to journey west to begin rehearsals for her first Broadway appearance since 1957, the title role in Midgie Purvis, a new farce by Mary Chase. Said Tallulah in her Far East town house: "I never leave the East Side. I haven't been to a nightclub in ten years, and the theater bores me-and besides, I haven...
More than a score of Wall Street brokers at Lehman Bros, began commuting by sea, some arriving at work in rumpled, spray-wet marine gear. They changed into business suits at the office. Dock hands at Manhattan's 23rd Street pier dusted off an old rule, hustled to collect a $1.50 "landing charge" for every passenger. So far only one weekday sailor, new to sea commuting, has fallen into the East River. An occasional commuter was heard to grumble: "Maybe they'll find out the Long Island Railroad isn't necessary, and it'll just disappear...
...black Rolls-Royces drew up to a pier in Monaco, disgorged recently divorced Shipping Czar Aristotle Socrates Onassis and his great and dear friend, sulphurous Soprano Maria Callas, legally separated from her husband. A scarlet speedboat skittered them out to Onassis' yacht Christina. On the eve of sailing for Eastern Mediterranean ports, "Ari" and Maria went ashore for dinner with Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Princess Grace. Next day Christina steamed off across the azure waters for Capri, and from there she was bound for Venice, where Maria would presumably debark to keep a recording date...
After nine weeks of intermittent babysitting in Manhattan, Grandpa Harry Truman and Grandma Bess were sad and glad to be relieved of their duties. They hustled little Clifton Daniel, 3, and his brother William, I, down to a pier where the boys' parents, Margaret Truman Daniel and New York Timesman Clifton Daniel Jr., disembarked from the liner United States after a European tour...