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...Berrien County, Ga.. a moonshiners' ancient auto, capable of making a 147-m.p.h. getaway with a load of 200 gallons of corn liquor, was bought at auction by County Sheriff Walter Gaskins, who will use it to chase moonshiners...
Originally, the plan to build a private steam-power plant (under contract with two Southern utility firms, headed by Edgar H. Dixon and the late Eugene A. Yates) to feed the expanding power load of the Tennessee Valley Authority was hailed as part of the President's policy of slowing "creeping socialism." But the White House dropped the plan discreetly, soon after TVA-minded Democrats cried scandal over an apparent conflict of interest: Banker Adolphe H. Wenzell had served at the same time as 1) a vice president of New York's First Boston Corp., a Dixon-Yates...
...plane swung above in wide circles, jettisoning some of its heavy takeoff (104,000 Ibs.) fuel load and burning up most of the rest at low altitude, waiting for foaming operations to be completed. The emergency vehicles on the field could hear the calm spurts of dialogue between Pilot Sommers and the control tower...
They joked about father and Freud, about mother and masochism, about sister and sadism. They delightedly told of airline pilots' throwing out a few passengers to lighten the load, of a graduate school for dope addicts, of parents so loving that they always "got upset if anyone else made me cry." They attacked motherhood, childhood, adulthood, sainthood. And in perhaps a dozen nightclubs across the country-from Manhattan's Den to Chicago's Mr. Kelly's to San Francisco's hungry i-audiences paid stiff prices to soak it up. For the "sick" comedians, life...
...Summoning reporters to a hastily called news conference, G.M. opened a trunkful of evidence in defense of the rear-engine car. Declared Maurice Olley, a retired G.M. director of research and development on suspension systems: "Some makes of front-engine cars are nose-heavy, even with a normal passenger load. To compare a car to an arrow is a complete fallacy." In a rear-engine car, said Olley, "the engine and its parts are more accessible. You people who know the Volkswagen know that when you open up its little rear end, there is all its little machinery sitting there...