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Critical in the engine's design were the metal "piston rings" at the tips of the triangle that keep the chambers gastight. But NSU says the metal strips show no wear after 300 hours of fullspeed operation. The engine uses a conventional carburetor and can be made to burn many kinds of fuel, including diesel oil. It is not for sale yet, but NSU expects to have it debugged and in large production in about two years...
...last week, Barbara was doing just that. She went for a bumpy ride on an elephant with her husband ("Johnny kept rocking the box"), shopped for souvenirs for her children, picked up a few saris for herself ("I love them, but someone will have to show me how to wear them"), visited a village and Red Cross headquarters, chatted with India's leading lady political and social workers at a reception given in her honor by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Nehru's daughter...
...girlhood owe most of their charm to the surprising fact that her origins were Catholic, her upbringing puritan. She describes all this with considerable grace, ends with a conversion to Sartre's atheism which seems from her own testimony to be just another straitjacket, but one she can wear with arrogance...
Crowds enviously studied the windows of Moscow's new Mosodezhda men's wear store last week, eying the fancy suits, coats, smokingi and fraki (tails). But inside, clerks told disappointed shoppers that these were "future" models. All they had for sale was the familiar old line of $80 and $120 suits, featuring outmoded double-breasted jackets and bell-bottomed trousers. "A drab selection," scribbled one customer in the shop's complaint book. "No quality suits. I am shocked, filled with indignation." "Outrageous," wrote another. "Patterns bad, workmanship careless...
...copied by at least six other makers selling their versions for as low as $7.99. The first big doll to really catch on, Patti owes her success to the industry's ability to make her light in weight (4¾Ibs.) and so lifelike that she can wear her owner's clothes. Other new favorites...