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General Motors this week rolled out the most Buck Rogersish automobile ever to come out of Detroit, its experimental XP-21 Firebird (see cut). The plastic-bodied Firebird closely resembles Douglas' supersonic F4D Skyray, with its sweptback delta wings (for stability), its vertical tail fin, and plastic bubble enclosing the driver's seat. Behind the driver's seat, the Firebird has a gas turbine engine, the first in a U.S. car. The small, kerosene-burning engine drives a turbine that transmits power directly to the wheels...
...beastly to the Communist government in Peking. Currently Panikkar is working with might & main to persuade Egypt to abandon the West and take up neutralism. So everybody concerned was quick to appreciate the official mischief that could result when such practiced twisters of the British lion's tail as Bevan, Panikkar and the Egyptians got together...
...life, Whistler was part scorpion (and sometimes attached a scorpion's tail to the butterfly in his monogram), a terror of the drawing rooms. He had a bit of a beard beneath his lower lip, which he used to tug at for inspiration when cornered. Then he would open his mouth and paralyze the opposition with a quip. When Critic John Ruskin dared criticize Whistler's paintings too harshly, the devilish dandy sued him for libel. Among the evidence presented at the trial was Whistler's Batter sea Bridge (opposite). Looking at it. the judge made...
...play is geared to the level of farce; but though the level is sustained, the leverage falters. Mr. Pennypacker can never quite settle down to being funny. At times, the play has Horace hilariously on the spot; at other times, Horace has orthodox behavior, and even monogamy, by the tail. But there is too much joking for such a moderate-sized joke, and sometimes the merest commotion is substituted for comedy. Despite a good try at the end, Mr. Pennypackers predicament is never really unscrambled...
Wiggle in the Tail. Born on a farm in Kansas, she majored in journalism at Kansas State College, worked as a staffer on Farm & Fireside before going to the Trib 17 years ago. Ever since. Columnist Paddleford has been writing for the Trib six times a week, has never missed a working day, and now makes around $30,000 a year. Her hard-working day starts every morning at 5:30 a.m. when she makes out a daily schedule for herself, often beginning with an early-morning stop at the food markets. At her East Side Manhattan apartment (where...