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...makes it possible to park at the curb with one finger on the wheel. ¶New shock absorbers which take the bumps out of the roughest ride. ¶Forced air cooling that cuts the wear & tear on brake linings. ¶A peppy new torque converter transmission, as good as Buick's Dynaflow or Oldsmobile's Hydra-Matic...
...road they found the patrol car with its red light on and its engine running. Less than a mile farther, they found a mana vacationing Seattle salesman named Robert Dewey lying dead with a bullet hole in his head. Dewey's automobile, a blue 1947 Buick sedan, was found that night beside a dusty Mexican road, 50 miles south of the border...
...University of Illinois engineering graduate, Goad was hired by Charlie Wilson for G.M.'s Delco-Remy (electrical) division, worked up to boss of Fisher Body and Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly plants. During World War II he headed G.M.'s Eastern Aircraft Division, whose plants at Linden and Trenton, N.J. were the only U.S. auto factories to convert to the production of complete airplanes (Grumman fighters and torpedo bombers...
Near by in a parked yellow Buick convertible, cops found the kidnaped girl. Drugged with seconal, filthy, wrapped in rags, she was nonetheless alive. The doctor had taken Linda to her office, drugged her, left her tied up in an abandoned ranch house, while she herself spent the night some 70 miles away at Las Vegas. In the yellow convertible were two other notes addressed to other well-to-do Santa Fe parents, whose children Dr. Campbell apparently planned to kidnap if she had failed to snatch Linda...
...trust fund, to be held there until Willie comes of age. Meanwhile, he is sending his 18-year-old brother to college, supporting his bride of four months in a Los Angeles motel, playing a few rounds of golf (low gos) in the mornings, and driving a new Buick. Records were all right, Willie figured, but nothing to lose sleep over...