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...will build a new 1,776,000-sq.-ft. Fisher body plant in Mansfield, Ohio, convert a wartime tank factory near Flint, Mich, to body-parts stamping. Oldsmobile will expand its engine plant capacity 50%; Buick will boost annual capacity from 750,000 cars to 1,000,000 cars, while other G.M. divisions will install new machines, new tools, new automation processes...
...standard four-wheeled tractor. Another new development: a machine called the Wonsover, which a Maine inventor named Herman Cohen will soon put into production. It was developed with the help of several companies (among them: U.S. Steel, Caterpillar Tractor, General Electric). Weighing ten tons, the Wonsover spans 240 sq. ft. of earth while a battery of hammers pulverizes the ground at the rate of 50,000 strokes a minute; other attachments mix fertilizer and lime, plant seed, cover and fumigate the soil against insects, all in a single operation. Even in brush-covered territory, says Cohen, the Wonsover can plant...
...size of each has risen from 148 acres to an average of 215. The small farmer is dying out; the big farmer, with enough rolling, clanking machines to equip a tank platoon, has taken over his land, and farms it more efficiently In Iowa's Shelby County (587 sq. mi.) 138 farmhouses stand abandoned in the midst of fertile, machine-tilled fields...
...House" -his name for the Secretariat. The Secretary-General hires and fires the U.N.'s multilingual employees, deals with New York City over U.N. parking privileges, approves the monthly bills for 100 tons of paper. 200,000 outgoing phone calls, and 335 cleaners who sweep 2,000,000 sq. ft. of flooring and seven miles of carpets. Hammarskjold runs his House with all the frugal efficiency of a well-brought-up Swedish housewife. He lopped $1,000,000 a year off the Secretariat's budget, last week ordered U.N. employees assigned to the San Francisco meeting to travel...
...followed, spewing parts. The first row of the crowd was cleanly decapitated. Twenty yards away, the chassis cut another swath. Gasoline took fire; then the Mercedes' magnesium-alloy body went up in a searing white flame. Levegh's headless corpse was burned to a crisp. A 400-sq. yd. stretch of gay and cheering people became a black, hysterical horror...