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Until their engines start, the cars look like casual products of the neighborhood junkyard. The body is an open, tubular-steel chassis with a wheelbase of some 40 in., a bucket seat that rests a scant two inches above the ground. Knees stuffed under his chin, the driver cramps behind the wheel like a frog in a walnut. Then the two dinky, 6-h.p. engines perched behind the seat begin to snarl, and the bedspring contraption becomes a hot, highly engineered racing machine that can hit 85 m.p.h. on the straightaway, drift through corners like a Maserati. Says one driver...
...West Virginia, Stevenson's chances would surge. But so would those of the other hopefuls. Stevenson well knows the odds would be against him. Gone are some of his biggest assets and best supporters of yesteryear. He has no functioning organization. He has no support among labor chiefs, scant support among organization Democrats. In his home state of Illinois, Chicago's Mayor Richard Daley, state Democratic boss, opposes him because he carried the state ticket to defeat in 1956. And Harry Truman, for whatever it is worth, snorted in Manhattan last week that it would be "difficult...
...dismissed the Governors' invasion of Washington as "purely political." Pounding his desk, Benson insisted that his programs were "making headway." that he was "more optimistic than I have been in some time." But the 1960 crop estimates just released by the Secretary's own Agriculture Department provided scant basis for such optimism...
...party, this was heresy, a betrayal of socialist principles; only a single commanding speech by Labor's fiery second-in-command, Aneurin Bevan, standing by his leader, kept the party conference from falling apart in November. Nye Bevan, after a major abdominal operation, is down to a scant 140 Ibs., and living in seclusion on his Buckinghamshire farm. With Nye out of action, socialist left-wingers rose in open revolt, and the party leadership split in warring factions. Instead of stumping the country like Gladstone to stir up mass support for a new Opposition policy, Gaitskell closeted himself with...
...crowd was patient, and only booed the intruding fireman (who may have remembered that the Modern was almost destroyed by fire a scant two years ago). What the connoisseurs witnessed for their pains was an unbeautiful joke with no punch line. As the New York Times's Critic John Canaday gently put it: "Mr. Tinguely makes fools of machines while the rest of mankind permits machines to make fools of them. Tinguely's machine wasn't quite good enough, as a machine, to make his point...