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...command rang out at 3 p.m., and for one long moment last week, all the klaxons of hell seemed concentrated at Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne Mountains of France. Electric starters whined. Engines coughed, belched smoke, bellowed and shrieked defiance at the wind. Yelling officials rushed wildly about, collaring reluctant mechanics and dragging them to the safety of the pits. The Tricolor flag fell. Gears crashed, tires squealed, and to a roar from 50,000 spectators, 17 Formula 1 racing cars hurtled off the starting grid for lap 1 of the French Grand Prix-oldest auto race in the world...
Until Phyllis McGinley, no poet had ever successfully domesticated the muse, or, for that matter, had even tried to. Her singular achievement is that she has brought off the match without undue strain on either partner. The Hayden household in Larchmont rang to the rhythms of recited poetry. "We used to sit around the fire while she read it to us," Daughter Julie recalls. "It was mostly ballads-and Yeats and Chesterton too. She chose dramatic stuff because she believes that poetry should appeal to the emotions. Mother and Patsy would always cry at the sad parts...
...plaster, and into the sunlight of the first floor. "My," a Reunioner whispered, "I hope the air conditioning never goes off." Babcock was showing them the TV studio, the IBM room, and the teaching machine room when the bells from neighboring Christ Church, an old grey building with windows, rang...
Industry will have no problem paying for its new plants: earnings reports for the first quarter have already shattered all records. General Motors rang up a 19% first-quarter gain (to $636 million) to seesaw ahead of A.T. & T. once again as the biggest profitmaker ever, and Ford raised its quarterly profits 39%. The airlines hiked their first-quarter profits 152%, led by Eastern Air Lines, which emerged from the red in 1964 to make an 8000% earnings rise in the first quarter. Fittingly, the steel companies led the pack; National was up 23%, U.S. Steel 43%, Youngstown 49%, Bethlehem...
...ballpark it was all they could do just to get the ball out of the infield. Finally, in the eighth inning, Hofheinz gave up, growled an order-and the giant Scoreboard did its home-run trick. Lights flashed, skyrockets soared, gongs sounded, whistles shrieked, bells rang. Two cowboys appeared on the huge screen, firing six-guns, followed by a steer with a U.S. flag on one horn and the Lone Star on the other. Hofheinz sighed happily. "Nobody can ever see this," he said, "and still think that Houston is bush...