Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WEST GERMANY'S OPEL, a General Motors subsidiary, spurted to No. 2 spot within the company, counting cars and trucks. Last year Opel boosted production by more than 25%, to 315,945 units, well ahead of Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac and Cadillac, though far behind Chevrolet's 1,534,575. During year, Opel exported 19,500 cars...
...guides, rebel girls escorted visiting politicians, correspondents, money couriers. One 30-year-old mother, ordered to take a visitor through the lines quickly, loaded her two daughters, aged 9 and 13, into her Chevrolet and using them as camouflage, got speedily through. For those caught, the penalties were beatings, head shavings, sometimes rape, and death by torture...
...India, where the symbolic gesture means so much, the 20th century last week sought out the old-fashioned ways. In his personal turboprop Viscount Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru flew 500 miles from New Delhi south to Ahmedabad. There he stepped into a red and cream Chevrolet convertible, rode 37 miles into the countryside, and came to a stop in the dingy village of Gangad, a place so desolate that it specifically recalls Gandhi's bitter comment about India's "700,000 dungheaps, known as villages...
...religious wars. They wander among shrines and through deserts until the boy becomes convinced that it is his destiny to unite in his person Christ and the Lord Tepozteco. The Passion play of Tlaltenalco gives him his opportunity, and he enters the village on Palm Sunday, riding a Chevrolet...
...daring gamble, he hired four experts, put them to work in Los Angeles. Using a special fuel-injection system, they developed 361 h.p. in a big (5.5 liters) Chevrolet engine. Double-size drum brakes were another innovation. The result was the Scarab-a low, shovel-nosed racer that quickly won its spurs by outrunning the long-dominant Ferraris, Maseratis and Jaguars produced in Europe...