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...compression ratio, the 300B engine is rated at 340 h.p., 40 h.p. more than last year, making it the highest-powered production-line model in the industry. Price: $3,997. The Fury, which uses basically the same shell as the two-door Plymouth hardtop, but is an inch lower and has a 240 h.p. V-8 engine, instead of the regular 200 h.p. engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Sporting Life | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...high-low pressure area extending over more than 1,750 miles of Atlantic coastline shows a 2 1/2 inch barometric pressure difference between northern and southern extremes. The local average temperature has fallen two degrees a day and cold air is forming in northern New England, but the storm which previously showed signs of moving has now resettled and is stationary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Storm Continues Breaking Records | 1/12/1956 | See Source »

Edward Reynolds '15, Administrative Vice-President, said the University is "giving the School of Education first shot at the property." Keppel added that the school is definitely planning to use the site. "We just can't move an inch now," he lamented. "Students are hanging from the rafters around here...

Author: By Jerome A. Chadwick, | Title: Education School Starts Drive for New Building | 1/10/1956 | See Source »

...Gonaxis, less than an inch long, attacks by attaching itself to the foot of the garden snail and devouring it alive with minute, filelike teeth as it retreats into its shell. Although the Gonaxis occasionally turns on one of its own kind (chiefly baby snails), it generally attacks only a snail of a different species. In its native Africa, the Gonaxis has maintained a healthy balance in the snail population...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Hunter Snail | 1/9/1956 | See Source »

...wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints for husbands: 1) take an hour to dress, 2) always wear suspenders, 3) in public be gartered, 4) flash at least half an inch of cuff below jacket sleeves, 5) always wear a vest with a single-breasted suit, 6) avoid an excess of jacket padding, 7) get chummy with a good tailor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 2, 1956 | 1/2/1956 | See Source »

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