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TORONTO, Aug. 20--Wes Santee of the United States raced a mile in 4 minutes 11.1 seconds today. He failed, in 95-degree heat, to come close to his stated ambition of cracking the 4-minute barrier.
Spinning automobile speedometers may be putting motorists in debt this summer to tire dealers and gasoline stations; but to holders of hundreds of millions of dollars of public revenue bonds secured by the tolls charged by pay-as-you-go expressways, bridges and tunnels, the record of mounting mileage is most gratifying.
A model house is being opened today in Montauk, L.I., by the Montauk Beach Company. The two-bedroom building, priced at $10,000, is on display at the Plaza and the Montauk Highway, opposite the sevenstory office building of the company.
HAVING recently completed a three - month sentence in an empty theatre, listening to some 1,500 actors and actresses trying out for roles in "A View From the Bridge," certain elementary considerations have since recurred in my mind, which might be profitably shared with whoever is interested in our theatre, or has even taken the time to hate it.
In 1955, the world population was approximately 2,740,213,792 people[†]