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While the Italians leaked their firm decision to a semi-official news agency, the missile they will get, the Army-designed Jupiter, was again proving its bright new reputation for reliability. In a summery twilight test-firing, Jupiter blasted aloft on its tenth successful flight (out of 15 tries, only one blowup), its third flight since Chrysler Corp. started supplying birds off its regular assembly line...
Coming Attractions. The International Cooperation Administration, already irked by the bestselling success of the semi-fictional The Ugly American (which describes bumbling failures of U.S. diplomats and foreign aidsters in Asian countries), has something new to worry about. Universal-International is planning to film the book in Thailand, and harried ICA pressmen can already visualize reaction of worldwide movie audiences to an almond-eyed Elizabeth Taylor or Kim Novak being pushed around by a bumptious young U.S. foreign aid boy abroad, a banality-mouthing U.S. Senator in Asia, or a potty U.S. ambassador. The moviemakers are asking for State Department...
...Nobel 200, a tiny (672 lbs.), gas-saving (85 miles per gal.) bubble of a car that seats a family of four and goes as fast as 63 m.p.h. Lowest-priced auto at the show, the Nobel will sell for $998 complete, or $895 in a do-it-yourself, semi-knocked-down kit assembled in 100 man hours...
Charlie David of Matthews South defeated Dudley's Reginald Howe 3 to 1 to win the final round of the annual Freshman squash tournament. David beat Rick deLone of Mower, 3 to 0, and Howe overcame Steve Secunda of Wigglesworth, 3 to 1, in the semi-finals...
Almost nothing is known of Bosch's life except that he was a member of a semi-monastic lay community, lived in The Netherlands in a house overlooking the marketplace of 's Hertogenbosch, married, and died in 1516. He was undoubtedly an ascetic, probably a mystic, possibly an astrologer...