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...following Stacton's tortuous meditations has its rare rewards. Without 400 pages of cutlass work, the invading Spanish are contemptuously summed up: "They knew nothing of navigation. That they left to the Portuguese. When there was something to shoot, they shot it. When there was nothing to shoot, they prayed." The author admires the doomed Mayas, the soft, proud, cruel, devious fanciers of blood sacrifices. It is a measure of his skill that he persuades the reader to admire them...
...year, though 21% below last year's fast pace. To keep up with the rising sales of compacts, automakers devoted 35% of car production to them-the highest percentage yet. Two new cars joined Detroit's bucket-seat brigade of compacts: Oldsmobile's F85 Cutlass and American Motors' Custom 400 Rambler American. The II compacts now are available in 97 models...
Enigma with Cutlass. Just before World War II, the rock island of Manacle Shoal in the Caribbean is being tunneled to serve as an unsinkable ammunition ship. The labor force consists entirely of U.S. Negro enlisted men; directing them are three white officers. No one is under any illusion about the overhanging risk: a wrong move, a detonated shell, a rule-breaking smoke-and the whole lot of them could be blown up. Along with the danger come few compensations. For the Negroes, there is an occasional cockfight and beers on a nearby island; for the commander, who is sure...
...logged 3,000 military flight hours (1,700 in jets). He flew 90 Korean combat missions (one MIG downed, one Distinguished Flying Cross, two Air Medals), served in peacetime as a Navy carrier flight instructor, as a test pilot helped develop a whole family of transonic jets: the Cutlass, the Fury, the Demon. Most recent assignment: test pilot for the new Mach 2 F4H McDonnell fighter. Last week Schirra's son, Marty, 8, chortled to his third-grade classmates: "My Dad is going on a rocket to the moon!" Replied a friend nonchalantly: "Have him bring me back...
...Mullin was zestfully skewering a typical summer's assortment of subjects. In for a joshing came Heavyweights Floyd Patterson and Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, Texas. A potbellied, stein-hoisting Brave celebrated Milwaukee's National League lead in German dialect, and days later Mullin's cutlass-swinging Pittsburgh Pirate was walking the plank while a puzzled Brave looked...