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...stock-car class, the Lincolns repeated their 1952 sweep, finished 1-2-3-4, with Milwaukee's Chuck Stevenson leading the way at an average 93.2 m.p.h. A Porsche led the small sports cars with 80.1 m.p.h., a Chevrolet the small stock cars with 77.1. Chief cost: nine dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Roaring Road | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

Packard, a notable holdout for a straight-eight engine, plans to abandon it for a V-8 in its 1955 models. General Motors will also switch to V-8s for its two lowest-priced lines-Chevrolet and Pontiac...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...Competition. In Wickenburg, Ariz., Chevrolet Dealer Bernard Hill proudly decorated his new showroom with wallpaper featuring illustrations of old-model automobiles, discovered too late that the old models were all Fords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 23, 1953 | 11/23/1953 | See Source »

...table, and threatened the P.W. The Swiss wagged his finger in the explainer's face, and cried, "You shut up. You shut up." The Poles and Czechs shouted at the Swiss, and the Indian shouted in Hindi to the guards. At this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent, and India's strapping Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya stepped out. "This is absurd," said he. "It's got to stop." He promptly ordered a ten-minute recess for every tent, and instructed his officers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KOREA: It Is Inhuman | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

...months ago, when Sergeant Wilkins, 28, came out through Panmunjom and Freedom Village, he had a list of 3,272 fellow prisoners as potential customers. As soon as he could get pen and paper, he sent the names and addresses to his old employer. Hanson Chevrolet sent out 2,000 letters offering the sergeant's friends a $300 "Wilkins discount" on a new car, urged them to come to Detroit to pick it up. Last week the company announced that 21 ex-prisoners have already done so (one former colonel came all the way from Georgia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SELLING: After Sex, What? | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

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