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Like Hopalong Cassidy sipping sarsaparilla in a riotous saloon, the entrants in the Clean-Air Car Race picked their way across the nation inhaling volumes of exhaust from other travelers. Their own machines were ingenious contraptions of varying degrees of purity powered by gasoline, batteries, propane gas or even steam...
...willingness of more than a third of the Senators to take the unprecedented step of handing the President a deadline for terminating a shooting war was a clear warning that senatorial patience was precariously thin. Yet the vote also indicated Nixon's skill at maneuvering to take the steam out of each resurgence of opposition to his strategy for seeking peace...
Married. Peter Sellers, 44, multi-faceted British comedian; and Miranda Quarry, 23, stepdaughter of Lord Mancroft, former Tory minister and director of the Cunard Steam-Ship Co.; he for the third time (previous wives: Actresses Anne Hayes and Britt Ekland), she for the first; in a civil ceremony in London...
...service." It was a cruel epitaph for a man who had lived 92 years and responded so creatively to an inventive age. Porter was the creator of more than 100 machines and gadgets including a washing machine, an airship, a portable, prefabricated house, an automobile run on steam, and an elevated train. He was the founder of the Scientific American, which has just reached its 125th year...
After jet planes drained the profits from its once lucrative transatlantic passenger trade, Britain's Cunard Steam-Ship Co. sold the money-losing Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth to American investors, who hoped to make a royal killing by converting the ships into dockside attractions. From the beginning, the new owners have been beset by problems. So far they have spent $40 million on the two uncompleted projects, and by every indication the money will not be recouped for years...