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Some experts blamed the rise of the compact car as a major cause of the steel slump, since each compact uses more than half a ton less steel than a standard model. But if the Big Three compact cars produced during March had all been standard-sized cars, the industry would have used only 36,000 more tons of steel. Since the auto industry uses more than a million tons of finished steel a month the difference is too small to be important. A likelier explanation of Detroit's drop in steel buying: automen have restored their steel inventories...
Married. Millie Perkins, 23, pert, former teen-age-fashion model who rose to stardom in her first movie, The Diary of Anne Frank, has yet to appear in a second; and Dean Stockwell, 24, former child actor (Boy With Green Hair), who hit the big time with his portrayal on stage and screen of a murderer in Compulsion; both for the first time; in Las Vegas...
Died. Peter Llewellyn Davies, 68, British book publisher, who as a child was seen romping in London's Kensington Gardens by Sir James Matthew Barrie, became the forever-young model for Barrie's Peter Pan as well as his longtime friend; in a London subway accident...
Better weather also got credit for a step up in auto sales, which spurted in the final third of March. Besides a solid gain by Ford and Chevrolet (TIME, April 11 Dodge reported that March was its best month since 1952 and that sales for the model year so far are up 129%. Plymouth's 37% sales hike over last year made its first quarter the best since 1957, and Rambler set an alltime March and first-quarter record with a 37% sales gain over last year's record first quarter. Pontiac reported its best first quarter...
...months of acting lessons behind her, Nancy wept well enough. Says Director Richard Quine: "She leaps to the bait like a hungry trout. She never has to be told twice, and she's resilient as a Yo-Yo." Daughter of a Chinese architect and an English-born Conover-model mother, Nancy knows Suzie Wong's world as well as anyone in the cast. When she was not absorbing an education in Hong Kong's Roman Catholic Maryknoll convent school, she was playing in the city where Suzie herself grew...