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After 35 years' service ashore and afloat and 6,000 flying hours as a naval aviator. Rear Admiral John Smith Thach, 52, last week drew a unique assignment: goblin hunting. In Navy parlance, goblins are unidentified submarines. By Navy observation, goblins currently spotted on an average of once a week off the Atlantic coast are nosy members of a Russian submarine fleet that numbers almost 500 boats, and is already ten times the size of Germany's wolf pack at the outbreak of World War II. Very soon, new Soviet boats will have missile capacity; Central Intelligence Agency...
...city Sunday driver screaming for the nearest parking lot. Snarling little (747 cc.) Abarth-Fiats fought for the right of way with the chesty Class "D" (up to three liters) giants-the Ferraris, Jags and Aston-Martins. In the swirling confusion, a Ferrari rode right up the rear end of a Jaguar, and both cars spun off the track. A little Stanguellini somersaulted off course and somehow landed right side up. The only serious accident saw General Motors Executive Chester Flynn spin his Ferrari out of an Sturn, tear through a barbed-wire fence and flip over twice...
...history is too grim to blend with comedy. But much of the book is engaging and bouncy, particularly when, at journey's end, Jaimie is a boy no longer, having discovered what it is men see in women: they "look somehow larger undressed than dressed, both forward and rear...
...CHEVY will be radically redesigned. Scrapping plans for a facelift, General Motors has kicked off a crash program of retooling to make car larger and restyle its rear. To trim remodeling costs, G.M. will build all its future cars (except Cadillac) around one basic body shell instead of the three used...
Bigger Bug. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works has put on the market a five-passenger mate to its two-passenger Isetta 300. In addition to the door opening from the car's front, the new Isetta 600 has a rear curbside door and back seat, is 21 in. longer (115 in. overall) than the 300 model. Its air-cooled engine has two cylinders to the 300's one, doubling horsepower to 26, though gasoline consumption of up to 58 m.p.g. is about the same. U.S. price...