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...baked plaza behind the U.S. Capitol, TV vans hummed like hungry insects. Marching in disorderly array up the steps to the Senate cham ber came group upon group of summer tourists, sunglasses on and cameras slung high. Inside, the Senate gallery was packed...
...gaunt thornbushes that dot the banks of the Zambezi River near Kasane. Potbellied kids squatted in the shade of round, white-walled mud huts while their mothers hacked with mattocks in the maize patches. Down at the riverbank, "Captain" Nelson Maibolwa puttered with twin 18-h.p. outboard motors slung on a ramshackle wood-and-iron pontoon. Behind him flowed the sun-dappled, grey-green Zambezi, where crocodiles, hippos and shoals of saber-toothed tiger-fish eternally wait their prey. There came the sound of a laboring truck engine, and brawny, coal-black Captain Nelson peered down the rutted dirt track...
Died. Finley Robertson Porter, 92, automotive pioneer, chief designer of the low-slung Mercer Raceabout, a forerunner of modern sportscars produced just before World War I, which cost $2,500 and is today's most valuable vintage U.S. auto (the 25 known surviving models are each worth at least $18,000); of heart disease; in Southampton...
...Ford wagons (three forward-facing seats) to G.M.'s arrangement (two forward and one rear-facing seat), G.M. brass ordered Buick designers to match Ford's design. Ford was able to place its third seat over the rear axle and still leave headroom because it uses low slung leaf springs. But all G.M. autos use space-consuming coil springs on the rear axle and, to make things even more difficult, G.M. insisted on a fully upholstered rear seat. To provide the necessary headroom, Buick tried raising the roof, but that made the car appear top heavy. The next...
Imported Snow. Ski resorts have learned to cope with such whims of nature. Off to the upper Alps trooped 3,000 Austrian soldiers, with orders to bring back snow or else. They brought back tons of the stuff-in trucks, in earth movers, in wicker baskets slung on their backs. Some 40,000 cubic meters were dumped on the ski courses; another 20,000 cubic meters were set aside for "emergency withdrawals." Six huge snowmaking machines, imported from the U.S., worked night and day, spraying ice crystals on the bobsled and sled runs. Finally, last week, Austria...