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...those who can afford to pay $2,000 to $15,000 for a sleek, low-slung imported sports car-and even for spectators who cannot afford it-road racing is supercharged with excitement. From a mere handful of postwar enthusiasts, the Sports Car Club of America, one of dozens spread over the U.S., has grown to over 2,500 members. Last year nearly 10,000 sports cars* were sold...
...then took the stand for the state and gave his account. The men he nabbed, he said, were shouting "down with the Police," and "What is this, the Gestapo?" He could not, however, identify any of those he had except for Frederick Gooding, Jr. '54, who had a camera slung over his shoulder. He also swore that he did not have a club, nor did any of the officers with...
...dawn last week, an American pilot flew eastward from the dead refinery town of Abadan along the shore of the Persian Gulf. As he skimmed five feet above fields crawling with dark brown insects, the 24 nozzles attached to the tanks slung under the plane's wings sprayed down death. The tanks were filled with Aldrin, a powerful new U.S. insecticide that kills locusts but is harmless to crops and cattle. Other Americans flew on similar missions in Jordan, Iraq and Pakistan, in a Point Four campaign that is costing the U..S. half a million dollars...
...side stand the faculty of the graduate schools of education who hurl back with equal momentum the innuendoes slung at them by the professors of the liberal arts colleges. The root of the controversy, say the Faculties of the Arts and Sciences, is that the schools of education pay too much attention to the mechanics of education, rather than to what subjects to teach...
...Yugoslavs tried to flee to Paris via the Orient Express. Carrying bread, jugs of water, and pills to stifle coughing, they sealed themselves in the metal battery boxes slung under the cars of the once-famed luxury train, but were caught by frontier guards near Trieste. The government charged that the fugitives were members of a subversive, anti-Tito movement, but in court last week the defendants denied it. Said one, a 21-year-old blonde: she wanted to go to Paris because she was in love with a student who always traveled the battery-box route. Said another...