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...Manhattan, Orchestra Leader Guy Lombardo finished his nightly stint at the Roosevelt Hotel, headed for his home in Long Island and drove his sleek British Jaguar straight into a traffic tragedy. Result: one man killed, a woman seriously injured. Lombardo was released without being charged; the pedestrians had apparently stepped into the street against a traffic light...
...Foreigners Only. The Japanese are tired of the irritating inequalities of occupation. They have had more than enough of the sleek new cabs for "tourists" or "foreigners only," the so-called specialty stores that sell luxury goods, tax free, to foreigners only. In Tokyo alone there are more than 40 beer halls, off limits to Japanese, where Japanese-made beer sells for a little under 20? a bottle; the same beer, with tax, can cost the Japanese 90? or more a bottle. SCAP has started removing some of these irritations, but meanwhile it is adding others. During the past...
...evening when his rumrunner is at anchor off a North Atlantic beach, he sees two seals romping in the moonlit waters. He slips over the side, soon feels more kinship with their sleek, black, shiny forms than he has ever felt with humans. Nearing shore, man and seals edge up on some rocks to rest. On shore, a bored young miss with a high-powered rifle is waiting to pot the seals and collect a new thrill. Two shots crack, but the Negro hears only the first, because "his head had caved in ... And so it was true and doubly...
...cold, thin air, high over Britain's Severn River one day last week, a sleek ground-attack fighter zoomed through its paces. Its twin jets roaring at full power, the sturdy Gloster Meteor suddenly whipped up into a vertical climb. Slowly its speed dropped off until, just before it stalled, the pilot cut the power in his port engine. Like a great, improbable pinwheel, the plane revolved through a tight circle (see diagram). Three-quarters of the way around, the pilot cut the power in his starboard engine. Momentum kept the Meteor revolving until it completed a turn...
...motor industry: Viscount Nuffield, head of Morris, and Leonard P. Lord, boss of Austin. When Lord brought out a new Austin for the export trade, Nuffield retaliated with the popular-priced Wolseley. When Lord introduced two bigger models, Nuffield struck back with the sporty M.G. and the sleek Riley. No sooner did Lord start pushing Austin's two-seat convertible than Nuffield brought out a new Morris Minor. (TIME, Feb. 7, 1949). But since Lord had been Nuffield's right-hand man and close friend for years before joining Austin, the competition was always friendly...