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...Hollywood housewife who knows little about the innards of automobiles ("I don't even know where the oil stick is"), the economy run seemed relatively simple. Said Mrs. Hauser, winner of the low-price, six-cylinder class in a Plymouth Savoy: "I think male drivers are high-strung, tense, too worried about stepping on the accelerator without thinking. Me, I just sit there calmly, smoking a cigarette, steering with one hand-and shaking my teeth." Tennis...
...works of art. historic relics and junk. He died in 1938. not long before World War II brought Italy "the fountains of blood and tears" the poet had promised, and history made its final savage exegesis of his life-work-the butchered bodies of Mussolini and his mistress strung up by the heels...
...chaos and shattered crockery. In blue tights flashing with gold, the three blonde Balakin sisters spun aluminum hoops in a shimmering blur. To the frantic rhythms of Khachaturian's Saber Dance, the three Gratchevs flung whole tribes of Indian clubs at one another while wobbling on a rope strung between two swaying wooden poles...
Among the finest items: a bronze ritual vessel from China in the form of a rhinoceros, dating from the 12th century B.C.; a Mogul miniature painting of Krishna, tense as a strung bow, awaiting his beloved; and a fantastic carpet from 17th century Lahore (see color). The carpet begins at the top with peaceful scenes of partying, moves to a gazelle hunt, with swift cheetahs used as hunting dogs, and then explodes in a wild fantasy. While tigers watch, a giant griffin with an elephant's head ferociously descends on a circle of black elephants, but is itself swooped...
...listed in the telephone book of every major city in the free world. N.C.R.'s lines of commerce spread out from Dayton, Ohio to seven plants and 500 offices in the U.S., and then out to an overseas empire on which the sun never sets: nine major plants strung from Europe to the Far East, sales offices in 121 nations. Sales were a fat $420 million in 1959, with an estimated profit of $18.9 million, best in N.C.R.'s 77-year history...