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...their march past before King Savang Vatthana and pro-Western Premier Boun Oum. the armed forces looked trim and efficient. But foreigners were warned not to leave the capital because their protection could not be guaranteed. Most of the government troops on duty in the field had been pulled back to Vientiane to celebrate the eleventh anniversary of the founding of the Laotian army...
...filling the unpaid advisory post, Wilkinson will continue as athletic director and football coach at Oklahoma, where in an unsuccessful 1960 season, his 14-year monopoly on the Big Eight title was finally busted. When asked about the 1961 prospects of his Sooner eleven, the new special consultant, as trim as in his days as a Minnesota quarterback, assured the press: "We will be physically fit but technically incapable...
...Detroit has discovered that Americans want economy all right-but are willing to pay any price to get it. Nearly 30% of the regular Falcon's customers, for example, insist on a 100-h.p. engine instead of the standard 85-h.p.; 50% want white sidewalls, 68% want the "trim kit"-extra chrome on the outside, pleated nylon on the inside...
POSTAL RATE HIKES to 5? on first-class, 8? on air mail, will be asked of Congress by the Kennedy Administration-a repeat of an Eisenhower effort to trim the Post Office deficit. Kennedy also is abandoning an unsuccessful $4.5 million experiment to transmit letters by facsimile...
...Trim and darkly handsome, "Din" Land, 51, has built his Polaroid Corp. into a company that employs 2,500, had 1960 sales of $99.4 million, and has given him and his family a paper fortune of more than $143 million. But Land has never let money, success or corporate detail interfere with his first love: the joy of discovery...