Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appreciation of driving the finest of its kind, you are right. Until you sit in the cockpit of this little giant killer and push the tach up to 5,500 r.p.m. in second or third gear, not to mention fourth, you will never know how delightfully sensuous driving a car...
Brooding Boss. The similarity between Porsche and Volkswagen is not accidental. Porsche got its name from the late Ferdinand Porsche, who built his first car in 1899, went on to design the first Volkswagen in 1936. He also had a hand in designing the Panther, Elefant and Tiger tanks that terrorized Europe in World War II, spent two years in a French prison as a war criminal. Porsche's postwar success is a product of his son, Ferry Porsche, 56, a cautious, brooding engineer. Ferry brought Porsche from a garage in Gmünd, Austria to a glass...
Some Porsche addicts even go in for a form of reverse snobbery, put Porsche engines in Volkswagens. One such car is owned by Actor Paul Newman, three more by Racing Buff Art Sparks of Pasadena. "It's a great satisfaction," says Sparks, "to come up behind a Cadillac on a hill on the way to Las Vegas, let him have the horn and go breezing by. They wonder what happened...
...operator of Radio Station WBOX in Bogalusa, La., Ralph Blumberg felt it was his civic duty to help explain the meaning of the new civil rights law to his community. The local Ku Klux Klan disagreed. And to bolster its argument, its members threw bricks through Blumberg's car windows, spread tacks in his driveway, fired six shots into his transmitter, forced the station's transfer from rented quarters to a trailer. So convincingly did Klansmen threaten the lives of his wife and children that Blumberg moved them to St. Louis...
...reader, Rex Stout's way has not changed. After 31 years, Nero Wolfe is still 286 Ibs. large, still guzzles at least a dozen beers and tends his orchids for precisely four hours daily, still abhors leaving his Manhattan house on business, and never goes near a sports car or chases a blonde. While thus ignoring Bondomania and its sibling rivals, Stout and Wolfe are doing just fine. If The Doorbell Rang holds true to recent form, it will sell at least 60,-000 hardback copies and 1,000,000 in paperback...