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Standing on its tractor-drawn launching trailer, the Matador looks like an odd crossbreed of a jet plane and a Buck Rogers fantasy. It is long, sleek, round as a cigar, and fitted with a pair of stubby supersonic triangular wings. In its nose, the missile carries a sand-filled dummy warhead. In its tail, the Matador carries a jet engine for endurance and a huge, underslung rocket motor for take-off power. Inside the Matador, every inch of space is crammed with fuel and the humming electronic navigator that guides it to its target...
Last week sleek yachts bobbed at anchor in Venice's lagoon as the guests arrived, accompanied by a swarm of reporters, rubbernecks and still hopeful last-minute invitation seekers. Cinemactress Irene Dunne, arriving by air to attend the Venetian film festival, came ready with a special red velvet costume, just in case. It took the best efforts of Hollywood pressagentry to wangle her an invitation just an hour before the party began. Perle Mesta, reputedly bidless, told reporters firmly: "I want it understood that I am not going...
Tallulah swept in, dressed in a sleek black dress, and called for a champagne cocktail. When it appeared, she hopped upon the nearest chair, poured the champagne into her black suede shoe (size four) and drank a toast. Shouted Tallulah: "Winston Churchill is my god, and I'm just mad about England. I mean Britain. I just love you all like crazy." Then she hopped down, tapped the nearest waiter, kissed him four times and said, "Darling, bring me a drink." As other waiters scurried to be of service, she cautioned the cameramen: "Don't shoot me grinning...
...Cisitalia (Italy): a sleek, low-slung car with a grill resembling "the cut end of a cigar...
...Packettes are already earmarked for their first big job-driving a new, high-pressure fueling system for B-36's. Until now, the big, sleek "Ramp-Roosters" have had to stay on the ground for hours while tank trucks, working at low pressure, gassed their huge tanks. With Packettes to help them, 8,000-gallon trucks, with big pumps working at 90 pounds pressure, will do the job in 20 minutes...