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...access to the clubs. With scholars, artists and future Cabinet ministers, Ho would contemplate and debate astronomy and hypnotism; he argued against Couéism ("Every day in every way I'm getting better and better") with Coué; but somehow, most nights the debate would zigzag back to Ho's one gnawing pang: Indo-China. "I am a revolutionary," Ho would explain...
Last week Necchi served notice that it is bidding for an even bigger share of the sewing-machine business. It announced that it will produce, for marketing in mid-1955, a new zigzag model with 56 half-dollar-sized, molded disks that can be slipped in to turn out hundreds of embroidery patterns. By such ingenuity and attention to the housewife's convenience, Necchi has already become one of the biggest dollar-earners for Italy. But Necchi has done something even more important; it has proved to skeptical Italians that U.S. production methods will work as well in Italy...
...Blood. In 1948 Necchi had a double stroke of good fortune with two new men. One was Leon Jolson, a Polish-born marketing expert who emigrated to the U.S., saw the possibilities of Necchi's zigzag sewing model, and brought in the first four Necchi machines (TIME, April 21, 1952). Last year his 2,268 franchised dealers in the U.S. sold some 80,000 machines, worth $32 million...
...Sebring's zigzag course had already taken a breakdown toll of cars-among them two British Aston-Martins and a Cadillac-Allard-and soon flagged down more. Fangio's Lancia went out with what the Lancia pits called ignition trouble (the word went round that it had really suffered a broken gearbox or a snapped rear axle). Midway, Taruffi's Lancia (No. 38) held the lead, but Ascari's Lancia was out with clutch trouble...
Point of View. In Milwaukee, on trial for drunken driving, Anton Schmalz, 62, admitted that he had been drinking Martinis "by the teacupful," but denied that he was drunk when arrested, explained that he had been forced to zigzag his car down the street "to dodge all the drunken drivers" coming at him from the opposite direction...