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Aboard a British Comet airliner, the parents of U-2 Pilot Francis Powers landed at a Moscow airport one foggy morning last week, a few days before the start of his trial on charges of espionage. Oliver and Ida Powers were visibly tired, looked around at their new surroundings with wary eyes. "They are only poor country folk," the family doctor, Lewis K. Ingram of Norton, Va., confided to newsmen. "All this has been a terrible strain on them...
...final pot-shot at the romanticists, Liller discounted the popular 1910 reports of the size and brightness of Halley's comet. He remarked that at least two comets sighted within the last ten years and hardly noticed by the public were probably as bright as or brighter than Halley's comet...
...Fords will be cut in overall length. While trimming its standard cars, and increasing the horsepower in its bigger-sized compact Comet, Ford is also heading into even smaller areas. It-plans to build a four-cylinder, five-passenger car smaller than the Falcon to compete in the Volkswagen and Renault class, selling for under $1,700. To get the price down, Ford plans to make the car in Germany, may not have it out until...
...represent success at a price. They are taking sales away from some automakers' bread-and-butter lines; e.g., Chrysler's Valiant is outselling the Plymouth. At Ford, the runaway success of the Falcon is such that Ford has stopped releasing sales figures for standard Fords (the new Comet is also outselling its sister Mercury...
...Western Decision. Into this atmosphere at week's end came British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, arriving in Washington aboard a Royal Air Force Comet. Macmillan, who favors the Soviet bid, contended that the long-drawn Geneva talks had raised such high hopes around the world that to resume testing would amount to propaganda suicide. If the West were to reject the Soviet compromise, it would have forfeited the opportunity to hold the Kremlin to a controllable ban on atmospheric tests and large underground explosions...