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Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...
...British do not doubt that Jagan is as Red as ever, but the line he now talks is quite different from 1953, when he promised to shoot the "oppressors." This time he shows more practical concern with the colony's huge problems-poor soil, soggy terrain, and torrid climate. He preaches cooperation with the Crown and with the firms controlling British Guiana's sugar and bauxite industries...
Frozen Assets. In Akron, Mark Pollock, 9, and brother David, 4, sold out their entire stock in three torrid days, charging heat-parched neighbors up to 4? each for 180 snowballs, of various flavors, which they stored last winter in the family freezer...
...also one of the fleshiest shows yet seen on the home screen. In fact Ellington's "allegorical tale of the origins of jazz" was a pretentious mishmash of primitive rhythms, pop tunes and sensuality. The sum of Drum was an interesting but meaningless collage, haphazard swatches of torrid rhythmic forms pasted on swirling globs of golds, indigos and vermilions. There were flashes of the Duke's fine musicianship. Ozzie Bailey sang Pomegranate with a seductiveness that might have tempted Persephone herself to try more of the fateful seeds, and there was ingenuity in the insolent whines of Johnny...
...grace the screen for only a few seconds, shot repeatedly for their new movie, The Sleeping Prince. The buss marathon was played big by most of Britain's daily press. A thoughtful columnist ventured an analysis of what had prolonged the action: "Marilyn -so used to the torrid clinches of Hollywood films-was nervous of the more elegant style of Olivier. She giggled coyly -and fluffed several takes...