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...Buick Super...
General Motors' new models looked the same on the outside, but under the hood there were some important changes. Biggest improvement was the use of a new carburetor in the Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile. When the accelerator is pushed down more than halfway, the carburetor supplies the engine with 45% more air than formerly, boosts horsepower as much as 20%. The new Cadillac is boosted from 160 to 190 h.p. The Buick Roadmaster, which also has a higher compression ratio, is increased from 152 to 170 h.p., and Oldsmobile from 135 to 160. The three cars also have...
...drove a new Buick on frequent long trips all over the state-on N.A.A.C.P. missions which many a Southern white man could only have construed as dangerous and inflammatory. His voice was one of the loudest raised in protest against the handling of the controversial Groveland rape case in which four Negroes were accused of attacking a 17-year-old housewife, back in 1949. When Lake County. Sheriff Willis McCall killed one of the defendants and badly wounded another while transporting them, handcuffed, along a lonely road last November (TIME, Nov. 19), Moore went further: he campaigned openly...
While this colloquy was taking place, a black 1951 Buick had pulled up and disgorged three passengers. "I am the Comte Jean de Medeult," said the first. "I am the Chevalier Charles des Acremonts," said the second. The third, tall, shy, bespectacled and even younger than the others, needed no introduction. At sight of him, several young nuns went hurrying down the school corridors crying, "The King is here...
...well as any other employee on her husband's staff. She is sociable, acts as a "good, low-key stabilizer" for her husband, and knows exactly how to keep in a dead heat with the Joneses without forging ahead by a single grand piano or Buick Roadmaster...