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Pollard's L-shaped dream house has a glass-walled living room with a view of lofty Mt. Tamalpais on one side and the incomparable San Francisco skyline on the other. Just outside is a bulkhead-type dock, flanked by a slip for Pollard's Penguin-class sailboat, in which he skims over the Belvedere lagoon...
...varsity rugby team will slip and slide on a damp Cambridge field this afternoon in a practice session with M.I.T...
Equally important, the apparent decision to slip out of the 1950 Agreement, by eliminating one possibility of action, will make intervention through the United Nations slightly more probable. Admittedly, United Nations intervention is not a surefire proposition. Only a Russian walkout enabled the Security Council to take action in Korea. Yet, in the Middle East, there is at least a fifty percent chance that Russia will agree to intervene through the United Nations. Should the Israelis initiate the attack, the Soviets might possibly agree to let the U.N. intervene, since it would allow the Russians themselves to send troops...
...pulse-takers of the economy sounded more optimistic last week than at any time since the year began. As the first quarter ended, New York's Guaranty Trust reported in its monthly survey that businessmen had virtually stopped talking about a slip in business, more and more were talking about a "boom already set to start rolling again." In Washington Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said that business activity was hitting a pace undiminished from the record rate reached in the final 1955 quarter, with chances "better than even" that '56 business would top the previous year...
...Slip-Stick Specialist. Fangio's swift, shovel-nosed, 34-liter Ferrari had all the power and acceleration a skillful driver needs, but its conventional drum-and-shoe brakes were not designed for that demanding course. The best of Fangio's competitors had cars that seemed better fitted. Former British Champion Mike Hawthorn was at the wheel of a big (20 cc. more displacement than the Ferrari), D-type Jaguar fitted out with husky disc brakes, a type relatively unaffected by heat. Current British Champ Stirling Moss was driving a light (2.9-liter), cat-quick Aston Martin, also with...