Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sports car rally, the course may lead over mountain pass and dirt road, through herds of cattle and city traffic, and the only sure way of covering its crises is to ride along. That is what TIME'S Bayard Hooper did in the seventh running of the Continental Divide Rally, the toughest of them all. Signed on as navigator to Sam Arnold in a British Peerless, Hooper brought his driver home a creditable seventh -from which he was disqualified in advance, since he had already scouted the course in line of duty. See SPORT, Rally in the Rockies...
...long before. TIME readers have been told that the news would happen. As far back as 1953, TIME'S cover story on the small, sporty Studebaker (Feb. 2, 1953) spotted the small but growing opinion among auto experts that "the oversize car is on the way out, and car design may change fast in the next few years." TIME followed up with a cover story on the fast rise of Germany's small Volkswagen (Feb.15-1954...
Even so, Detroit thought the small car was just a fad. TIME was not so sure. In a cover story on Ford Styling Chief George Walker (Nov. 4, 1957), TIME underscored the rising chorus of complaints that "Detroit's new chariots are too long, too heavy, too brassy." What TIME was reporting did not agree with many of the automakers' market surveys. But when auto sales skidded down sharply, TIME again updated the subject in a cover story on the Big Three (May 12, 1958), buttonholed motorists around the land. TIME found that they really thought U.S. cars...
...Grey Jones, Jr. '61, secretary-treasurer of the Harvard Motor Sports Club, won the speed championship in a sports car gymkhana sponsored by the Boston Motor Sports Club at Shoppers' World in Framingham Sunday afternoon...
...Twelve Hour Rallye, Quequechan Sports Car Club...