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...Navy carrier-based planes have hunted subs in teams; one radar plane hunted the sub while the other carried the weapons to kill it. The new hunter-killer plane will not only save valuable carrier space but its range is so great that it can patrol a much wider area than the old teams. By next fall, Grumman will hit peak production, and manufacture of the old teams will be stopped...
...Spillane (1952 sales: 6,074,135), a kind of poolroom Marquis de Sade. It was plain to the worried hardcover men that the two-bit upstarts had tapped a new market of readers. The paperbacks were even publishing originals and luring away writers with promises of better royalties and wider readership. But the paperbacks were headed for trouble: in Washington, a congressional committee was lambasting the sexy covers-frequently on reprints of eminently respectable works, e.g., a nude model on a Van Gogh biography-which had become eyesores in the nation's drugstores...
...mistake of planning narrow front steps. At a recent dorm meeting the girls were asked to keep the passage-way to the door clear when saying their goodnights, and if any prolonged adieus were in order to please step around the corner to Moors, where the steps are considerably wider and there is less of a traffic hazard...
Pontiac has been completely redesigned into a longer, lower, wider car, with more window space, more horse power in the six-cylinder model, and a new frame and suspension system for a smoother ride...
...Stevenson, in a San Francisco speech on foreign policy, emphasized "endurance" against Communism, and thus opened wider the gap between his attitude and Eisenhower's proposals for a more dynamic policy...