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...stole the Paris show. Features: a two-cylinder, air-cooled engine, that is said to get more than 60 miles to the gallon (at an average speed of 38 m.p.h.); front-wheel drive, all-round torsion-bar suspension, a fabric top that rolls up like a windowshade. Perhaps the strangest-looking car at the Paris show was the Dyna-Panhard's "Dynavia" whose ultra-Studebakerish use of glass gave it the air of an airplane cockpit (its two-cylinder engine gets 30 miles to the gallon...
Officially, Pakistan was as altruistic as India. Its troops were there, said Jinnah's government, to prevent refugees from crossing the borders. Meanwhile, on a 300-mile front that stretched crescent-like across India's biggest state, the fighting raged in one of the strangest wars of modern times...
...Strangest Thing . . ." In San Francisco last week some 250 men & women crowded into Fellowship Church's rented meeting hall. Half were white, more than a third were Negro, the rest Chinese, Japanese and Filipinos. Their religious backgrounds were also multicolored: Baptists, Quakers, Presbyterians, Roman Catholics, Jews, Episcopalians and many who claimed no church at all. The service last week was divided into two parts-half an hour of meditation, then 40 minutes of preaching and hymns...
...came the occasional voices of pedestrians. A cable car clanged at the corner. An air compressor muttered in the distance. A plane growled overhead. When the half hour was over, newcomers moved into empty seats for the second part of the service. Said one of them: "It was the strangest thing, the quiet when I came in . . . like coming into a cathedral...
...bout with the bottle, died last winter in New York City. Laverne Fator, perhaps the iciest jockey who ever rode a horse, killed himself a few years ago. Tod Sloan, who made and squandered over a million dollars, ended up wheedling dimes from street crowds, billed as "the strangest dwarf in the world...