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...protection of concrete tiers. Engines are top-limited at three liters' displacement (smaller than that of a Rambler), and no driver can be on the track longer than three hours at a time without relief. All cars must have windshields and wipers. But manufacturers, in their frantic search for speed, devised windshields that flip down at high speeds to avoid extra wind resistance. As they well know, a victory at Le Mans means a difference of millions in a year's sales...
...while other key producers, such as National Distillers' Kordite Corp., are returning to the heavier, more expensive plastic they first used to make bags three years ago. They believe that heavier-gauge bags are less dangerous because they do not cling to the skin as readily. In the search for a safer product. Technical Tape Corp., New Rochelle, N.Y., a major producer of plastic bags, has devised a corrugated plastic with thousands of tiny air corridors that permit breathing...
...Britain's invisible exports in the shape of earnings from shipping, banking and insurance overseas, British economists feel that their balance of payments actually shows a surplus. Said jubilant Sir David Eccles, president of the British Board of Trade: "An excellent show. This is due to the vigorous search for markets abroad which our businessmen made when home trade was not so good. Now they will be able to sell more at home and abroad...
Nairobi police were waiting at the airport with a search warrant last week when Kenya's 28-year-old Tom Mboya got off the plane after a trip to the U.S. to receive an honorary degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C. For 2½ hours, as Mboya stood calmly aside, officials examined everything in his luggage. Reason for the bureaucrats' interest: on the flight home, Kenya's most dynamic African leader had stopped off at Tunis to meet with other leaders of the All-African People's Conference, formed last year in Ghana, which brought...
...based husband Steve Parker and her two-year-old daughter Stephanie. Friends still remember with a kind of awed surprise the evening she brought Steffie to a party, stuck the child in a wicker basket and put her in a closet to sleep. Later the party moved off in search of a progressive jazz pianist who was never found. Far later it wound up at a nightspot called the Crescendo. Steffie was still in the closet, sleeping peacefully...