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...four generations Germany's acrobatic Flying Wallendas have been performing their spine-tingling act on the high wire, always without a net. Since the Wallenda family settled in the U.S. in the 1920s, four members have toppled to death, and a fifth was permanently paralyzed in a fall. Now Steve Wallenda, 17, the youngest male of the proud family, who could have revitalized the troupe, has called it quits -for a high flying career with the U.S. paratroops. "I just like heights-on our first jump we will be jumping from 1,200 ft.," said Steve. "The highest...
...admits that the Markette is at best a "transitional" car, not likely to replace internal-combustion engines in enough numbers to begin to solve the auto-caused air-pollution problem. As for its power source, it is only a little more advanced than the lead-acid electrics of the 1920s-or the golf carts Westinghouse already builds at its Marketeer Division plant in Redlands, Calif...
What makes Sam particularly valuable is that the Charolais is a relatively new and increasingly popular breed in the U.S. The first Charolais in North America were brought to Mexico from their native France in the 1920s. But for years U.S. foot-and-mouth-disease restrictions and Mexican law allowed them to trickle north of the border only periodically. Nonetheless, the creamy-white, deep-chested Charolais quickly caught on with U.S. cattlemen because they are one of the world's heaviest breeds. They grow faster than most cattle; after weaning, many gain 100 lbs. a month. Two years...
Thoroughly Modern Millie. It would take a miracle of invention to find fresh ness in so well-traveled a territory as the 1920s. Unhappily, miracles are difficult to find in this return trip to the decade of Hot Jazz, the Noble Experiment and the Emancipated Woman...
...1920s, oriental potentates began ordering their Rolls-Royces with smoke-blackened windows so that their wives could ride comfortably "in purdah"-screened off from the eyes of other men. Now "purdah glass" has been revived, and is the latest rage of London...