Word: auto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andre Marty, 65, answered party charges of undermining Communist unity in France (TIME, Sept. 29). To Marty, professional party roughneck who fought in the 1919 Black Sea mutiny, the Spanish Civil War and ir many a skullbreaking French Communist riot, the party gave one month's time for "auto-criticism." Last week, dissatisfied with his "obstinate refusal . . . to confess ... his serious political deviations," the French Communist Party fired him from its ten-man Politburo...
...motorcycle sidecar. Jaguar's creator is a Lancashire-born mechanic named William Lyons, 50, who in 1922 opened a small shop in Blackpool to make hand-built cycle sidecars "for the discriminating few." As he prospered, Lyons decided he could improve on Britain's towering, square-rigged auto bodies, moved to Coventry and opened the Swallow Coachbuilding Co., Ltd. In 1931, he turned out his first car, the Swallow Special (quickly known simply as the "S.S."), built on a British Standard's chassis. The Daily Mail called it "the ?360 car with the ?1,100 look...
...Lyons spends most of his time in the Coventry works, is usually on the floor from 9 a.m. "until the work is finished, even if it's midnight." In Britain's often unimaginative industrial hierarchy, bustling Bill Lyons sticks out, looks and talks more like a Detroit auto builder. A three-time visitor to the U.S., he has picked up Yankee ways, pops out press releases that would make a sedate company like Rolls-Royce quiver in embarrassment. Sample: "Mr. Clark Gable has [owned four] Jaguars; Mr. Adam Gimbel has two ... To visit the New York showroom...
...Auto-Neurosis. In Bridgeport, Conn., charged with setting eight cars on fire, George Brandt told police: "I couldn't afford to own an automobile . . . and I didn't want anyone else to have...
...breed tuataras in the Bronx Zoo, but they have no external sexual characteristics. The only way to distinguish males from females is to wait for the mating season, when the tuataras, croaking, make their own decisions. New Zealand is not yet ready to release enough tuataras for this auto-selection experiment...