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...Milwaukee, Hearst's morning Sentinel (circ. 85,684), perennially a distant second to the sleek Journal (circ. 369,418), is widely regarded as one of the most unprofitable papers in the Hearst fold. The Journal has picked up 45,150 in new circulation since 1950, while the Sentinel took...
...Sweden's Volvo P 1800, a sleek, hand-tooled sports coupe powered by a 100-h.p. engine and capable of speeds over 100 m.p.h. Price: about...
...Polaris submarines, listed 2^ degrees to starboard. Deep below the ship's afterdeck, a tube holding a Polaris missile was tilted another seven degrees to guarantee that the missile would fire away from the ship. Suddenly, amid a great puff of white steam formed by compressed air, the sleek, 28-ft. missile whooshed 70 ft. into the dark sky, seemed to hang motionless for an instant, then ignited in a blinding white flash and roared 800 miles down the Caribbean range...
Rosemary (German). When this real-life, highly successful prostitute was murdered in 1957, squads of West Germany's sleek industrial tycoons took to their Mercedes and fled the publicity. The film tells the story with sharply edged satire...
...Eisenhower listened solemnly last week while a worried, deeply tanned Government official told him about a Florida vacation. Explained John Charles Doerfer, 55, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission: he and his wife had taken an innocent little pleasure cruise last February, six days and nights aboard Lazy Girl, sleek yacht of Big Florida Broadcaster (twelve radio and TV stations) George B. Storer. There was also a free round trip from Washington on Storer's private plane. As chairman of the commission which regulates and licenses all U.S. telecommunications, Doerfer saw nothing wrong in accepting such lavish hospitality...