Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With Disneyland off limits, Khrushchev was driven behind police escort through shopping centers, housing developments, and the U.C.L.A. campus. Ambassador Lodge told Khrushchev that he could stop anywhere; Khrushchev, once again detached and dubious-looking, chose not to stop anywhere, hardly looked out of the windows of his closed car. That night at a civic dinner in the Ambassador Hotel, Khrushchev found himself once again beside Los Angeles' Mayor Norris Poulson. Poulson keynoted a speech in which he was supposed to be introducing Khrushchev to an echo of Patrick Henry. "You shall not bury us," he told Khrushchev...
...Podola case began last July 13, when Podola, 30, allegedly shot and killed a London cop who was trying to question him about a shakedown charge. Cornered three days later in his shabby South Kensington room, Podola was brought out to a police car looking considerably the worse for wear. Two policemen were half dragging him by the arms, and a third walked just ahead as if to keep him from pitching forward. His head was covered with a sack...
...least 300,000 Corvair '60s, plus 1,500,000 standard Chevies. If he does, he will beat 1955's alltime Chevy sales record of 1,720,000. He also expects the U.S. market to be big enough next year for all comers, big and small, to prosper. "Car sales for 1960," says Cole, "should be at least 6,900,000, including imports...
Pushing to clean up stocks before the compact cars come out, dealers cleared out 485,000 U.S.-made cars in August, 50% more than last year and the best August since the banner car sales year 1955. Thanks to the surge of buying, the backlog of unsold cars dropped to 725,000 on September 1, only a 39-day supply at current sales rates...
That Kind of Woman (Ponti-Girosi; Paramount) brings together Sophia Loren and Tab Hunter, although that kind of woman should never be mated with that kind of man. They meet in the club car of a Miami-to-New York train. "He doesn't look old enough to drink," taunts Sophia. The tall towhead leans forward over the table, sternly wobbles his eyeballs, says: "I'm old enough to do anything." Sure enough, the script requires her to pick...