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...inch cars on the HO-scale track that raced a scale Mille Miglia, safe-driving obstacle course and drag strip for the "Grand National" championship were the products of the Aurora Plastics Corp., which joined with the Ford Motor Co. in organizing an elimination contest enlisting 1,000,000 "drivers"' in 48 states (the state champions ranged in age from eight, for California, to 37 for New York). But Aurora's Model Motoring sets, ranging from $20 to $50 (individual cars are $1.98 or $2.49), are only one of 13 different lines of miniature electric racing cars that...
...design of the experiment is straightforward enough, and it might have been started earlier but for one drawback: there was no way to check on the women being tested to make sure that they did not sneak an occasional secret drag. Now NIH has found a chemical detective. Researchers at San Antonio's Southwest
...this has a manly, adventurous tang and the animals are so spirited and graceful that they merit every bit of superbly photographed film footage they get. When the beasts are off camera, the film is a beastly drag. Elsa Martinelli wants to be roped and wedding-banded by Wayne, but big John shies away from any species that a zoo will not buy. The other three white hunters follow the spoor of a comely teen-ager (Michele Girardon). Director Howard Hawks kids these silly romances, but two hours and 40 minutes among the wildebeests is apt to send moviegoers stampeding...
...nation's biggest grocery chain, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. Only last March did A. & P. reluctantly get into the game with Plaid stamps. Last week, at the company's annual meeting, President Ralph W. Burger, who two years ago condemned the stamps as a "drag on civilization," conceded that they may be good for business...
...like water-skiing in a bus. Projecting down from the ferry's trim speedboat hull are legs with winglike metal skis on the end. As the ship picks up speed, the hull rises out of the water and skims along on its skis. Because it has only the drag of the skis, a Rodriquez hydrofoil needs only half the power of a conventional boat to achieve the same speed. More important, its top speed is three times that of the average conventional ferryboat-which means that it can move three times as many passengers...