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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gripped in this private feud, both Republicans trailed their Democratic opponents by a country mile. California polls showed Knowland running behind Democrat Pat Brown (TIME, Sept. 15) for Governor 38% to 62%. Similarly, Goodie Knight lagged in Engle's rear, 41% to 59%. Gleefully watching the Knight-Knowland act, Democrats crowed over the G.O.P. "right-to-lose campaign...
...North Pole, he designed projects ranging from a house that was hung from a duralumin mast to bathrooms with no running water (only an air hose squirting 90% air, 10% water, no soap needed). Among his other Dymaxion ("dynamic" plus "maximum service") products have been a three-wheel, rear-engined automobile and a house that can be stowed away in an aluminum container. None of them ever went into mass production. Bucky got a reputation as a man of tomorrow for whom tomorrow never came...
...selling prices. The restyled Chevrolet led the way with a new six-cylinder engine that "gives up to 10% more mileage," also offered eight other engines ranging up to 315 h.p. Plymouth offered four engines from 132 h.p. to 305 h.p., had a new gas-saving carburetor and new rear-axle-gear ratio, which it said "contribute to 10% greater economy of operation." Ford came out with four engines ranging from 145 h.p. to 300 h.p., said its lowest-powered, six-cylinder model will get better than 20 miles...
...four-passenger convertible with three wheels was added to its U.S. line by Italy's Lambretta, the motor-scooter maker. Designed as a golf cart, estate jitney or city family's runabout, the "Surrey"' carries two in a front cab, two in a wicker rear seat with fold-back canvas roof. It has a 6-h.p. single-cylinder engine, goes 45 m.p.h., gets 75 miles per gallon. Price...
Thurs., Oct. 9 Behind Closed Doors (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rear Admiral Ellis M. Zacharias, U.S.N. (ret.), deputy chief of Naval Intelligence during World War II, masterminds this reasonably authentic slant on American counterespionage...