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...picked one up at Dearborn last week for $5. Show Race. Next to their cars, Model A restorers love other Model A re storers more than anything else in the world, and the annual convention is the high point of every year. Restorers admiringly-and enviously-go over every inch of each other's antiques. Flourishing "before" pictures, they try to outdo each other with stories of mileage, speed, and prices offered (top price on record is $6,000 for a two-door Phaeton). But the moment of truth is the judging. After a day's parade through...
Under heated Washington discussion last week was an inch-thick report stamped "Secret." Written after a six-month investigation by the Senate's Preparedness subcommittee, headed by Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, the report is highly critical of the U.S. Army's supply and equipment situation...
...parliamentary peace as the House of Commons recessed until October. But he gained little else. Labor had pushed through 65 new bills-a near-record number-but most were concerned with the mechanics of ad ministration. Under the first Socialist government since 1951, Socialism had failed to advance an inch...
...Mullan begins with a simple injection of anesthetic into the side of the neck, just below the skull-one place where the spinal cord and its multiplex nerve cables are not completely encased in bone. Then he inserts a hollow, stainless-steel needle, only one hundredth of an inch in diameter, and guides the needle toward the nerves he wants to deaden with the aid of instant X rays that an assistant hands to him every ten seconds. One group of nerve fibers in the spinal cord serves the legs, another the trunk, and a third the arms. When...
...wedding, her friends would gather in a quilting bee to make a friendship-album quilt in which each did a special, signed design. The art was not reserved completely for the distaff; one Charles Pratt of Philadelphia made 33 Biblical picture quilts, each composed of 30,000 half-inch squares. Still, bees buzzed mainly with the gossip of busy women clustered around the quilting frame, darting their threads to their chatter...