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Brawny & Graceful. Vance is sure that the oversize car is on the way out, and that car design may change fast in the next few years under the spur of hell-for-leather competition already in sight. Studebaker will have to hustle faster than ever to keep its designers ahead. Fiber glass and plastic bodies already promise great weight-savings and economies. Rear-engine autos, which would cut production costs, are another possibility. Last year Studebaker queried 10,000 people, found to its surprise that 50% of them would not hesitate to buy such...
...sullen olive groves and dwarf wheat fields around San Severo, on the spur of the Italian boot, have long bred Communists. Working for as little as 64? a day on land they could never buy, the San Severini were eager listeners to Communist organizers, who promised "The land will be given to you when Palmiro [Togliatti] is Premier of Italy...
...surly isolation, getting queerer by the minute. He always contended that he could speak cat lan guage, and he proved it by jabbering in the moonlight in such a way that the local tabbies came by dozens and prowled between his legs. He wore a ring with a sharp spur in the bezel, for use in case the Jesuits should attempt to ab duct him. He trusted no man and insulted all, yet the least imagined slight could ruin a week for him. To conceal his sensitivity, he cultivated a poker face...
...pointed out, had complained about Deutsch's activities, intimated that the company would lose the business of printing confidential material if something wasn't done about Deutsch. Could Deutsch explain his vacation activities? Deutsch gave a vague explanation that his visit to Poland and Russia was a spur-of-the-moment whim, mainly because his parents had come from those countries. Unsatisfied, Field fired Deutsch under the "neglect of duty" clause in the union contract. The A.F.L. typographical union appealed the decision, arguing that Deutsch could not be fired for something he had done on his own time...
Sidetracked. In Los Angeles, a court ordered housewife Mrs. Fredna Pavlich to stop interfering with the building of a railroad spur after the Southern Pacific formally complained that she had: 1) pulled up survey stakes as fast as they could be put in, 2) stood in front of a grader, 3) filled up pestholes, 4) heaved stones at the railroad workers, 5) bit the hand of the railroad's lawyer...