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WHAT HAS FOUR WHEELS AND FLIES? (192 pp.)-Douglass Wallop-Norton...
Money Barks. In a similar spirit, the second of these books recalls the familiar theory that the American automobile has become less a means of transportation than a status symbol impossible to define, and lately, impossible to de-fin. Using this as a wheelbase. Author Douglass Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has produced a pleasant little fiction involving gadgeted and gusseted cars that are driven by a privileged group of dogs. The dogs themselves, of course, are at the mercy of the whims of the designers, i.e., the breeders. Author Wallop's protagonist is Hobbs...
...reader feels strongly about car design, can stomach some doggedly doggy sex interest and the book's odd dog conversation (a kind of Madison Avenue jive), he may be able to grin, once or twice, wider than his own canines. But as he wags his little tale, Satirist Wallop seems to be unaware that his bark is a great deal worse than his bite...
...bombers of the Strategic Air Command will still pack the U.S.'s main nuclear punch in the early 1960s. Backing up SAC will be nuclear submarines armed with Polaris solid-fuel intermediate-range missiles, plus IRBMs deployed in Western Europe, plus U.S. fighter-bombers, with a mighty nuclear wallop, on alert at bases scattered around the perimeter of the Communist heartland. But what made the headlines was the missile gap, and the public confusion was greater than ever...
...explained Sharon Pollard, 21, and now in jail for smuggling a revolver to her jailed boy friend and partner in crime, comes from a 75? inhaler intended only for clearing stuffy noses. But if its active chemical ingredient, amphetamine, is dissolved and injected into a vein, it packs a wallop. Last week the abuse of amphetamine was growing so fast that it had the Kansas City police, Missouri legislators, federal officials, even the U.S. Congress seriously concerned...